Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
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- Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jer 10:25 : 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
- Matt 23:17-39 : 17 [Ye] ‹fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?› 18 ‹And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.› 19 [Ye] ‹fools and blind: for whether› [is] ‹greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?› 20 ‹Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.› 21 ‹And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.› 22 ‹And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.› 23 ‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier› [matters] ‹of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.› 24 [Ye] ‹blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.› 25 ‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.› 26 [Thou] ‹blind Pharisee, cleanse first that› [which is] ‹within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.› 27 ‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead› [men's] ‹bones, and of all uncleanness.› 28 ‹Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.› 29 ‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,› 30 ‹And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.› 31 ‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.› 32 ‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.› 33 [Ye] ‹serpents,› [ye] ‹generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?› 34 ¶ ‹Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and› [some] ‹of them ye shall kill and crucify; and› [some] ‹of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute› [them] ‹from city to city:› 35 ‹That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.› 36 ‹Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.› 37 ‹O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,› [thou] ‹that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under› [her] ‹wings, and ye would not!› 38 ‹Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.› 39 ‹For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed› [is] ‹he that cometh in the name of the Lord.›
- Rev 17:16 : 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
- Ps 27:2 : 2 When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?
- Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
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3 They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
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8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
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3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
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22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19 And none considereth in his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
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4 [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
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7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard [it].
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3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
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7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him.
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11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
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7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
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3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
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6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
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16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? [or] who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
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4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God.
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15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
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11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
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17 And the way of peace have they not known:
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5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.
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17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed.
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2 When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
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12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
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4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
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29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
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25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
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9 ¶ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
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4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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22 But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.