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Psalm 14:4

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

World English Bible

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?

American Standard Version

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

Geneva Bible 1599

Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.

Darby Translation

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

Bible in Basic English

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

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Cross references

“Have”

Romans 1:28 Isaiah 29:14 Isaiah 45:20 Isaiah 5:13 Isaiah 27:11 Psalm 94:8

Romans 1:28 · BSB

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Isaiah 29:14 · BSB

Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden. ”

Isaiah 45:20 · BSB

Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13 · BSB

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 27:11 · BSB

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Psalm 94:8 · BSB

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

“eat up”

Jeremiah 10:25 Amos 8:4 Galatians 5:15 Micah 3:2 Micah 3:3

Jeremiah 10:25 · BSB

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homel…

Amos 8:4 · BSB

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Galatians 5:15 · BSB

But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

Micah 3:2 · BSB

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

Micah 3:3 · BSB

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

“and”

Psalm 79:6 Isaiah 64:7 Job 27:10 Job 21:15

Psalm 79:6 · BSB

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Isaiah 64:7 · BSB

No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Job 27:10 · BSB

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

Job 21:15 · BSB

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Also

Psalm 82:5 Psalm 27:2 Hosea 7:7

Psalm 82:5 · BSB

They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 27:2 · BSB

When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.

Hosea 7:7 · BSB

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

5There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous.

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