Psalms 14:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

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

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Have all the workers{H6466} of iniquity{H205} no knowledge,{H3045} Who eat up{H398} my people{H5971} [as] they eat{H398} bread,{H3899} And call{H7121} not upon Jehovah?{H3068}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Have all the workers{H6466}{(H8802)} of iniquity{H205} no knowledge{H3045}{(H8804)}? who eat up{H398}{(H8802)} my people{H5971} as they eat{H398}{(H8804)} bread{H3899}, and call{H7121}{(H8804)} not upon the LORD{H3068}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Their mouth is full of cursinge and bytternes, their fete are swift to shed bloude. Destruccion & wretchednes are in their wayes, ad the waye of peace haue they not knowne: there is no feare off God before their eyes.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? They call not vpon the Lord.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 79:6 : 6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.
  • Jer 10:25 : 25 Pour 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, destroyed him, and ruined his homeland.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They do not know nor do they understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When evildoers come against me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumble and fall.
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand? 9 Does He who formed the ear not hear? Does He who formed the eye not see?
  • Isa 5:13 : 13 Therefore, my people have gone into exile because of lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.
  • Isa 44:19-20 : 19 No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?' 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Isa 45:20 : 20 Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones. 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
  • Rom 1:21-22 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
  • Eph 4:17-18 : 17 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • Hos 7:7 : 7 All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.
  • Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Job 27:10 : 10 Does he delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 53:3-4
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    3 God looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.

    4 All have turned away; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16 For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • 8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • Ps 14:1-3
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    1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

    2 The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.

    3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.

  • 22 For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

  • 4 Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

  • Ps 94:4-7
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    4 They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

    5 They crush Your people, LORD, and oppress Your inheritance.

    6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

    7 They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."

  • Isa 44:18-19
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    18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

    19 No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?'

  • Mic 3:3-4
    2 verses
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    3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

    4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time because of the evil they have done.

  • 25 Pour 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, destroyed him, and ruined his homeland.

  • Rom 3:11-12
    2 verses
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    11 "There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God."

    12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.

  • 13 Therefore, my people have gone into exile because of lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • 5 There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is with the generation of the righteous.

  • 4 No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

  • 7 All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.

  • 16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand with me against evildoers?

  • 5 They do not know nor do they understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

  • 4 Do not let my heart incline to an evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with those who do iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies.

  • 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • 14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.

  • 1 For the director, according to Mahalath. A contemplative psalm of David.

  • 12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

  • 10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will commit fornication but not multiply, because they have abandoned the LORD to pursue their own ways.

  • 17 And the way of peace they have not known.

  • 4 How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

  • 17 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

  • 8 He walks in company with evildoers and associates with the wicked.

  • 4 Woe to a sinful nation, a people loaded down with guilt, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, and turned their backs on Him.

  • 4 They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

  • 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing.

  • 2 Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • 14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • 28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

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    8 My eyes grow weak from sorrow; they fail because of all my adversaries.

  • 15 Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

  • 11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to stay alive. "Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised."

  • 14 Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

  • 2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.