the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 14:4
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Do all the workers of iniquity not know,Who eat up my people as they eat bread,And do not call upon Yahweh?
Do all the workers of wickedness not know, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord?
Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the LORD?
Have all doers of iniquity not known, eating My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.
Those who are evil treat my people like bread to be eaten. And they never ask for the Lord 's help. Don't they know what they are doing?
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?
Haue all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eate vp my people as they eate bread, and call not vpon the Lord.
Their mouth is full of cursinge and bytternes, their fete are swift to shed bloude. Destruccion & wretchednes are in their wayes, ad the waye of peace haue they not knowne: there is no feare off God before their eyes.
Don't they know anything, all these impostors? Don't they know they can't get away with this— Treating people like a fast-food meal over which they're too busy to pray?
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And do not call on Yahweh?
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
All those who behave wickedly do not understand— those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord .
Won't you evil people learn? You refuse to pray, and you gobble down the Lord 's people.
Don't they ever learn, all those evildoers, who eat up my people as if eating bread and never call on Adonai ?
Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.
They recognized not the workers of iniquity, who devour my people as one eats bread; and they called not upon the LORD.
Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the LORD?
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on the LORD?
'Shall not all the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?'
Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn't think of praying to the Lord .
Will those who sin never learn? They eat up my people like they eat bread. They do not call on the Lord.
Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour My people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord ?
Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people as they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.
(13-4) Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?
All who do evil—do they not know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord ?
Do all the workers of injustice not know, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the LORD?
Don't the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask the Lord for help.
"Don't they know?" asks the Lord . "Are all these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me."
Will evildoers never understand? They consume My people as they consume bread; they do not call on the Lord .
Whether alle men that worchen wickidnesse schulen not knowe; that deuowren my puple, as mete of breed?
Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Have: Psalms 94:8, Psalms 94:9, Isaiah 5:13, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 44:19, Isaiah 44:20, Isaiah 45:20, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:22, Romans 1:28, 2 Corinthians 4:3, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 4:17, Ephesians 4:18
eat up: Jeremiah 10:25, Amos 8:4, Micah 3:2, Micah 3:3, Galatians 5:15
and: Psalms 79:6, Job 21:15, Job 27:10, Isaiah 64:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:11 - Surely Genesis 37:25 - they sat Numbers 14:9 - are bread Psalms 27:2 - to Psalms 44:11 - like sheep appointed for meat Psalms 86:14 - and have Psalms 94:5 - break Proverbs 4:17 - General Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Isaiah 43:22 - thou hast not Amos 3:10 - they Micah 3:1 - Is it Romans 10:2 - but not
Cross-References
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?.... Of the being of God, of the nature of sin, and of the punishment due unto it? This question is put either by way of admiration, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra observe; the psalmist, or rather God speaking after the manner of men, wondering that there should be such ignorance and stupidity among men, as before expressed; or rather, as denying this to be the case, and affirming that they have knowledge, notwithstanding they think, and say, and do, as before related, as in Romans 9:21. Do not they know that there is a God? and that they are accountable to him for their actions? Verily they do: for this is said, not of sinners of the Gentiles; though even they, by the light of nature, know there is a God, and show the work of the law written in their hearts; and have a consciousness in them of good and evil; but of sinners in Zion, of the profligate part of mankind among the Jews, who had a divine revelation, by which they knew the one God of Israel; and a law, by which was the knowledge of sin, and whose sanctions were rewards and punishments. And it seems to design the chief among them, who had power over others, to eat them up and devour them; even their political and ecclesiastical governors see Micah 3:1, who, though they had no spiritual understanding, nor experimental knowledge of things, yet had a theoretical and speculative one; so that their sins were attended with this aggravation, that they were against light and knowledge, particularly what follows:
who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: not David's people, but the Lord's people: see Psalms 14:2; whom he chose for his people, who were his covenant people, and who professed his name, and were called by it; these the workers of iniquity ate up, devoured, and consumed; see
Jeremiah 10:25; by reproaching and persecuting them, doing injury to their persons, property, and character: they devoured their persons, by using them cruelly and putting them to death; they devoured their substance, by spoiling them of it, and converting it to their own use, as the Pharisees are said to devour widows' houses and they destroyed their good names and characters with their devouring words: and this they did with as much ease, delight, and pleasure, and without any remorse of conscience, and as constantly, as a man eats his bread. Or the words may be rendered, "they eat up my people, they eat bread"; that is, though they act such a wicked and cruel part, yet they have bread to eat, and fulness of it; they are not in straits, nor afflicted and punished; and because they are not, they are hardened in their impiety and iniquity: or "they eat bread", after they have persecuted and devoured the Lord's people, with peace of mind, without remorse of conscience, as if they had done no iniquity, like the adulterous woman in Proverbs 30:20;
and call not upon the Lord; or pray to him, or serve and worship him; for invocation includes the whole worship of God; and this they do not, though they know him, and are daily supplied by him, and eat his bread. Some read this clause with the former, "they eat bread, and call not on the Lord"; as if their sin was, that when they eat bread, they did not ask a blessing upon it, nor return thanks to God for it, which ought to be done; but the accent "athnach" under לחמ, "bread", will not admit of this sense, though it seems to be countenanced by the Targum.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? - literally, “Do they not know, all the workers of iniquity, eating my people, they eat bread; Jehovah they call not.” The several statements in this verse in confirmation of the fact of their depravity are:
(a) that they have no knowledge of God;
(b) that they find pleasure in the errors and imperfections of the people of God - sustaining themselves in their own wickedness by the fact that the professed friends of God are inconsistent in their lives; and
(c) that they do not call on the name of the Lord, or that they offer no worship to him.
The whole verse might have been, and should have been put in the form of a question. The first statement implied in the question is, that they have “no knowledge.” This can be regarded as a proof of guilt only
(1) as they have opportunities of obtaining knowledge;
(2) as they neglect to improve those opportunities, and remain in voluntary ignorance; and
(3) as they do this from a design to practice wickedness.
See this argument stated at length by the apostle Paul in Romans 1:19-28. Compare the note at that passage. This proof of human depravity is everywhere manifested still in the world - in the fact that men have the opportunities of gaining the knowledge of God if they chose to do it; in the fact that they voluntarily neglect those opportunities; and in the fact that the reason of this is that they love iniquity.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread - They sustain themselves in their own course of life by the imperfections of the people of God. That is, they make use of their inconsistencies to confirm themselves in the belief that there is no God. They argue that a religion which produces no better fruits than what is seen in the lives of its professed friends can be of no value, or cannot be genuine; that if a professed belief in God produces no happier results than are found in their lives, it could be of no advantage to worship God; that they are themselves as good as those are who profess to be religious, and that, therefore, there can be no evidence from the lives of the professed friends of God that religion is either true or of any value. No inconsiderable part of the evidence in favor of religion, it is intended, shall be derived from the lives of its friends; and when that evidence is not furnished, of course no small part of the proof of its reality and value is lost. Hence, so much importance is attached everywhere in the Bible to the necessity of a consistent life on the part of the professed friends of religion. Compare Isaiah 43:10. The words “my people” here are properly to be regarded as the words of the psalmist, identifying himself with the people of God, and speaking of them thus as “his own people.” Thus one speaks of his own family or his own friends. Compare Ruth 1:16. Or this may be spoken by David, considered as the head or ruler of the nation, and he may thus speak of the people of God as his people. The connection does not allow of the construction which would refer the words to God.
And call not upon the Lord - They do not worship Yahweh. They give this evidence of wickedness that they do not pray; that they do not invoke the blessing of their Maker; that they do not publicly acknowledge him as God. It is remarkable that this is placed as the last or the crowning thing in the evidence of their depravity; and if rightly considered, it is so. To one who should look at things as they are; to one who sees all the claims and obligations which rest upon mankind; to one who appreciates his own guilt, his dependance, and his exposure to death and woe; to one who understands aright why man was made - there can be no more striking proof of human depravity than in the fact that a man in no way acknowledges his Maker - that he renders him no homage - that he never supplicates his favor - never deprecates his wrath - that, amidst the trials, the temptations, the perils of life, he endeavors to make his way through the world “as if there were no God.” The highest crime that Gabriel could commit would be to renounce all allegiance to his Maker, and henceforward to live as if there were no God. All other iniquities that he might commit would spring out of that, and would be secondary to that. The great sin of man consists in renouncing God, and attempting to live as if there were no Supreme Being to whom he owes allegiance. All other sins spring out of that, and are subordinate to it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 14:4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? — Is there not one of them who takes this dreadful subject into consideration? To their deeply fallen state they add cruelty; they oppress and destroy the poor, without either interest or reason.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread — Ye make them an easy and unresisting prey. They have no power to oppose you, and therefore you destroy them. That this is the meaning of the expression, is plain from the speech of Joshua and Caleb relative to the Canaanites. Numbers 14:9: "Neither fear ye the people or the land; for they are bread for us."
And call not upon the Lord. — They have no defence, for they invoke not the Lord. They are all either atheists or idolaters.
