Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 of them has gone back: they are totally corrupted (filthy). None do good, no, not one.
4
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.
Psalm 27:2
Evildoers accosted me to tear me to pieces. My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell.
Psalm 94:8
Pay attention, you stupid (senseless) people! When will you become wise, you fools?
Isaiah 27:11
When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For they have no understanding (discernment). Their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your fury on the nations who do not know you and on people who do not worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.
Matthew 23:17-39
You fools! You blind men! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?
Revelation 17:16
The ten horns that you saw on the beast will hate the harlot, and will make her desolate and naked. They will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.