Psalms 14:4

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“Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.”

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BSBPD

“Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my peopleasthey eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 14:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
  2. Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
  3. Psalms 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
  4. Psalms 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
  5. Psalms 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  6. Psalms 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
  7. Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
  8. Isaiah 5:13Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
  9. Isaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
  10. Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
  11. Isaiah 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
  12. Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
  13. Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
  14. Isaiah 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
  15. Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  16. Hosea 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
  17. Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
  18. Micah 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
  19. Micah 3:3You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
  20. Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
  21. Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  22. 2 Corinthians 4:3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
  23. Galatians 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
  24. Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

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