Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

New American Standard Bible

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.

International Standard Version

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on the LORD.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

Amplified


Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

Darby Translation

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

Did not the workers of vanity know? eating my people they ate bread; they called not Jehovah.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

All who do evil--do they not know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?

NET Bible

All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people as they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

Youngs Literal Translation

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

References

Morish

Context Readings

A Portrait Of Sinners

3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord. 5 Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Cross References

Isaiah 64:7

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

Jeremiah 10:25

Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

Amos 8:4

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

Job 21:15

What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Job 27:10

Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

Psalm 94:8-9

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Isaiah 5:13

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Isaiah 29:14

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Isaiah 44:19-20

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Isaiah 45:20

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

Hosea 7:7

They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

Micah 3:2-3

You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Romans 1:21-22

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

Romans 1:28

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

Galatians 5:15

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

Ephesians 4:17-18

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

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