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

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Therefore, behold, as for me I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."

No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"

Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing;

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

Eat up

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the families that do not call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation."

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume one another.

And

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you; on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

Will he delight himself in Shaddai, and call on God at all times?

There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

General references

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