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

Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.

And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

Eat up

Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

And

Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:

What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?

Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God?

and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

General references

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.