Psalm 14:4

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Summary

Psalm 14:4

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

Have

Eat up

And

General references

Proverbs 4:17

Bible References

Have

You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And [you] fools, when you will show insight?

Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, [and] their nobles [will be] men of hunger, and their multitude [is] parched [with] thirst.

{When its branches are dry}, they are broken; women [are] coming [and] setting light to it. For it [is] not a people of understanding; therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor.

therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden."

And {no one takes it to heart}, and [there is] no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in [the] fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make [the] rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!"

Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols} and pray to a god who cannot save.

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

But if indeed our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,

Eat up

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.

Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,

[Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

And

Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] kingdoms that do not call on your name,

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times?

And there is no one who calls on your name, who pulls himself up to keep hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us, and melted us into the hand of our iniquity.

General references

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.