Psalm 14

Psalm 14
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."
Martin Luther's singable version of the 14th Psalm, "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl", in the 1524 Erfurt Enchiridion
Other name
  • Psalm 13
  • "Dixit insipiens in corde suo"
LanguageHebrew (original)
Psalm 14
BookBook of Psalms
Hebrew Bible partKetuvim
Order in the Hebrew part1
CategorySifrei Emet
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part19

Psalm 14 is the 14th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." In the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, it is psalm 13 in a slightly different numbering, "Dixit insipiens in corde suo".[1] Its authorship is traditionally assigned to King David.[2] With minor differences, it is nearly identical in content with Psalm 53.[3] Hermann Gunkel dates the psalm to the exile period.[4]

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It has been paraphrased in hymns such as Luther's "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl".

  1. ^ "Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 13". Archived from the original on 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  2. ^ Morgenstern, Julian. "Psalm 11." Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 69, no. 3, 1950, pp. 221–231.
  3. ^ Bennett, Robert A., “Wisdom Motifs in Psalm 14 = 53: Nābāl and 'Ēṣāh”, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 220, 1975, pp. 15–21.
  4. ^ Gunkel, Hermann (1986). Die Psalmen (in German) (6. Aufl ed.). Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 233. ISBN 3525516533. OCLC 15270384.

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