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

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General references

Proverbs 4:17

Bible References

Have

Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people -- an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations."

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

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

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Eat up

Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

And

Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'

Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

General references

For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.