Psalms 14:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.”
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“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)“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“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“Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 14:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
- Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- Psalms 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
- Psalms 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- Psalms 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Psalms 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Micah 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 2 Corinthians 4:3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
- Galatians 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
- 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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