Psalms 14:4
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.
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- Ps 79:6 : 6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!
- Isa 64:7 : 7 No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
- Jer 10:25 : 25 Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.
- Amos 8:4 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
- Ps 82:5 : 5 They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.
- Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.
- Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand? 9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
- Isa 5:13 : 13 Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.
- Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
- Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”
- Isa 44:19-20 : 19 No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’ 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
- Isa 45:20 : 20 Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
- Mic 3:2-3 : 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
- Rom 1:21-22 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
- Rom 1:28 : 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
- 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
- Gal 5:15 : 15 However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
- Eph 4:17-18 : 17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being 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 blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall– and none of them call on me!
- Job 21:15 : 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
- Job 27:10 : 10 Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?
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3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
4 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 God.
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16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
17 Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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8 They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
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1 For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
2 The LORD looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.
3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
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22 The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
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4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.
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4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
5 O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
7 Then they say,“The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
- Isa 44:18-192 verses73%
18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.
19 No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’
- Mic 3:3-42 verses73%
3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
4 Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.”
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25 Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.
- Rom 3:11-122 verses73%
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 shows kindness, not even one.”
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13 Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.
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5 They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.
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4 No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
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7 All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall– and none of them call on me!
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16 Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
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5 They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.
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5 Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it all.
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4 Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
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4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
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3 Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!
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14 They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.
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1 For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
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12 But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.
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10 They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the LORD by pursuing other gods.
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17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
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4 How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”
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17 So the Lord was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
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8 He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.
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4 Beware sinful nation, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the LORD, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.
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4 They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
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15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.
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2 Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.
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14 Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.
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28 That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
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8 Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping!
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15 Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”
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11 כ(Kaf) All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive. Jerusalem Speaks:“Look, O LORD! Consider that I have become worthless!”
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14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.
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2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.