Psalms 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Every one of them has gone back. They have together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 27:2When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Isaiah 27:11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them

Jeremiah 10:25Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Revelation 17:16And the ten horns that thou saw, and the beast, these will hate the whore, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her with fire.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 53:2-6

Human Depravity. 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 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. 4 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… Read the whole commentary →

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