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Psalm 53:4

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Doe not the workers of iniquitie knowe that they eate vp my people as they eate bread? they call not vpon God.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“Have”

Jeremiah 4:22 Psalm 94:8 Isaiah 27:11 Matthew 23:17–39

Jeremiah 4:22 · BSB

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Psalm 94:8 · BSB

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

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.

Matthew 23:17–39 · BSB

You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

“who eat”

Jeremiah 10:25 Psalm 27:2 Revelation 17:16

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…

Psalm 27:2 · BSB

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

Revelation 17:16 · BSB

And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

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, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.

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