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Psalms 14:4

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

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ASV

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

KJV

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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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הֲלֹ֥אha.Lo'¿ notH3808 →
יָדְעוּ֮ya.de.'Udo they knowH3045 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫יpo.'a.Lei[those who] doH6466 →
אָ֥וֶן'A.ven<of> wickednessH205 →
אֹכְלֵ֣י'o.khe.Lei[those who] devourH398 →
עַ֭מִּי'A.mi<of> people myH5971 →
אָ֣כְלוּ'A.khe.luthey eatH398 →
לֶ֑חֶםLe.chembreadH3899 →
יְ֝הוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
קָרָֽאוּ׃ka.Ra.'uthey call onH7121 →

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Psalms 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.Psalms 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.Micah 3:3You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”Romans 10:2For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.Isaiah 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.Psalms 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,Ephesians 4:17–18So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.Numbers 14:9Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”Micah 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”Galatians 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.Hosea 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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