Psalms 53:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Jer 10:25 : 25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
  • Matt 23:17-39 : 17 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is guilty. 19 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him that dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I say to you, You shall not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns which you saw on the beast will hate the prostitute, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to devour my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs 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 who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

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  • Ps 14:3-4
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    3 They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

    4 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?

  • Hos 4:8
    77%

    8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Mic 3:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

    3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.

    4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds.

  • Jer 4:22
    74%

    22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Isa 5:13
    74%

    13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

  • Prov 4:17
    74%

    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Ps 53:5
    73%

    5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was; for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you; you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

  • Jer 5:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

    4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Ps 35:15
    73%

    15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

  • Jer 10:25
    73%

    25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • Isa 44:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

    19 And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stump of a tree?

  • Ps 94:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4 How long shall they utter and speak arrogant things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

    5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.

    6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

    7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

  • Ps 53:3
    72%

    3 Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

  • Obad 1:7
    71%

    7 All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have laid a trap under you. There is no understanding in him.

  • Lam 1:11
    71%

    11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider, for I have become vile.

  • Ps 79:7
    71%

    7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

  • Ps 54:3
    71%

    3 For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • Jer 50:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 My people have 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 resting place.

    7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

  • Ps 94:16
    71%

    16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

  • Amos 8:4
    71%

    4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Ps 56:7
    70%

    7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In your anger, cast down the peoples, O God.

  • Isa 3:15
    70%

    15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

  • Isa 42:24
    70%

    24 Who gave Jacob for a plunder, 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.

  • Ps 73:11
    70%

    11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

  • Rom 3:17
    70%

    17 'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Hos 7:14
    70%

    14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

  • Isa 52:5
    70%

    5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

  • Ps 27:2
    70%

    2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to devour my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

  • Mic 4:12
    70%

    12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4 How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Ps 35:25
    70%

    25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, this is what we wanted; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  • Job 35:9
    70%

    9 Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.

  • Ps 82:5
    70%

    5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Isa 59:4
    70%

    4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Jer 5:28
    70%

    28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Isa 42:22
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    22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for a prey, and no one delivers; for a plunder, and no one says, 'Restore.'