Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.
New American Standard Bible
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?
King James Version
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Holman Bible
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.
International Standard Version
Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on God.
A Conservative Version
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?
American Standard Version
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?
Amplified
Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.
Bible in Basic English
Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
Darby Translation
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.
Julia Smith Translation
Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.
King James 2000
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?
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 God.
New Heart English Bible
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?
The Emphasized Bible
Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.
Webster
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread! they have not called upon God.
World English Bible
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
Youngs Literal Translation
Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 53:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
There Is None Who Does Good
3 Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God. 5 There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Psalm 27:2
When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalm 94:8
Understand, you beastly ones among the people; and fools, when will you be wise?
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His Maker will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will not favor them.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.
Matthew 23:17-39
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Revelation 17:16
and the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked. And they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.