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.

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Eat up

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General references

Proverbs 4:17

Bible References

Have

Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

Therefore cometh my folk also in captivity, because they have no understanding. Their glory is famished with hunger, and their pride is marred for thirst.

Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

therefore will I also show unto this people a marvelous, terrible, and great thing - Namely this: I will destroy the wisdom of their wise, and the understanding of their learned men shall perish."

They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?"

Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?

inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded.

If our Gospel be yet hid, it is hid among them that are lost,

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,

Eat up

Pour out thine indignation rather upon the Gentiles, that know thee not, and upon the people that call not on thy name: And that because they have consumed, devoured and destroyed Jacob, and have rooted out his glory.

Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,

But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones;

If ye bite and devour one another: take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.

And

Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

What manner of fellow is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, to submit ourselves unto him?'

Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty, that he dare always call upon God?

There is no man that calleth upon thy name, that standeth up to take hold by thee. Therefore hidest thou thy face from us and consumest us, because of our sins.

General references

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