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Psalms 53:4

2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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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 God.
KJV
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
WEB
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
ASV
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?
DARBY
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.
BLB
Will they not learn, the workers of iniquity, those devouring my people they have devoured bread; they do not call upon God.
ÅB
Sanser de da ikke, de som gjør urett? De spiser mitt folk slik som de spiser brød; på Gud kaller de ikke.
OTB
Har de som gjør urett ingen kunnskap,
De som eter mitt folk som de eter brød,
Og ikke har påkalt Gud?
B1930
Sanser de da ikke, de som gjør urett? De eter mitt folk likesom de eter brød; på Gud kaller de ikke.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 4:22

    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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  • Jeremiah 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.

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  • Psalms 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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  • Psalms 94:8

    Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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  • Isaiah 27:11

    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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  • Revelation 17:16

    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.

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  • Matthew 23:17–39

    Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

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