| Psalm 14 | |
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| "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 |
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| Language | Hebrew (original) |
| Psalm 14 | |
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← Psalm 13 Psalm 15 → | |
| Book | Book of Psalms |
| Hebrew Bible part | Ketuvim |
| Order in the Hebrew part | 1 |
| Category | Sifrei Emet |
| Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Christian part | 19 |
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".
- ^ "Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 13". Archived from the original on 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
- ^ Morgenstern, Julian. "Psalm 11." Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 69, no. 3, 1950, pp. 221–231.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gunkel, Hermann (1986). Die Psalmen (in German) (6. Aufl ed.). Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 233. ISBN 3525516533. OCLC 15270384.