Psalms 14:4
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- KJV
- Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- WEB
- Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?
- ASV
- Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
- DARBY
- Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
- BLB
- All those working iniquity, have they not know? They devour my people they have eaten bread; on YHWH they do not call.
- ÅB
- Sanser de ingenting, alle de som gjør urett?
Alle de som spiser folket mitt, slik som de spiser brød?
De kaller ikke på Herren. - OTB
- Skjønner ikke de som gjør urett,
De som fortærer mitt folk som de spiser brød,
Og ikke påkaller Herren? - B1930
- Sanser de da ikke, alle de som gjør urett, som eter mitt folk, likesom de eter brød? På Herren kaller de ikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Read in contextJeremiah 10:25
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.
Read in contextPsalms 82:5
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Read in contextIsaiah 64:7
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Read in contextRomans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Read in contextAmos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Read in contextEphesians 4:17–18
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Read in contextPsalms 27:2
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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