Psalms 53:4

(53-5) 'Shall not the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon God?'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

3(53-4) Every one of them is unclean, they are together become impure; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

5(53-6) There are 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 rejected them.

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Cross References

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

Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof 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 that made them will not have compassion upon them, and He that formed them will not be gracious unto 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.

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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