Psalms 53:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, `One' seeking God.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah `is' with you -- in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
  • Ps 111:10 : 10 The beginning of wisdom `is' fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise `is' standing for ever!
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,
  • Jer 16:17 : 17 For Mine eyes `are' upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men. 14 From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;
  • Ps 102:19 : 19 For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,
  • Deut 4:6 : 6 and ye have kept and done `them' (for it `is' your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding `is' this great nation.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 `Jehovah `is' in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens `is' His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 14:1-3
    3 verses
    95%

    1To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

    2Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one -- seeking God.

    3The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- `On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

  • Rom 3:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

    10according as it hath been written -- `There is none righteous, not even one;

    11There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

    12All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.

  • 3Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.

  • Ps 33:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.

    14From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;

  • 19For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,

  • 23Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

  • 6He is humbling `Himself' to look On the heavens and on the earth.

  • 50Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,

  • 2Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, `is' their God.

  • 27to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

  • 5Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

  • Jer 4:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

    23I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

  • 11And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

  • 5Come ye, and see the works of God, Fearful acts toward the sons of men.

  • Job 28:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.

    24For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see,

  • Ps 94:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

    8Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

  • 3Jehovah, what `is' man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?

  • 20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

  • Rom 1:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest `it' to them,

    20for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;

  • 25All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

  • 2Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,

  • 29See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.

  • 6That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?

  • 4`Jehovah `is' in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens `is' His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

  • 40We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

  • 21Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

  • 7`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

  • 27He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

  • 32The humble have seen -- they rejoice, Ye who seek God -- and your heart liveth.

  • 15And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

  • 28And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:

  • 1Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.

  • 3If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

  • 12And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

  • 7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

  • 4Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?

  • 7By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

  • 21For His eyes `are' on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.

  • 6This `is' a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah.