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Psalm 14

Psa. 14:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Have all the workers
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
of iniquity
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
no knowledge
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
? who eat up
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
as they eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
, and call
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
not upon the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Psa. 94:8‑9• 8Consider, ye brutish among the people,{HR}And fools, when will ye be wise?
 9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?{HR}He that formed the eye, shall he not see? (Psa. 94:8‑9)
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Isa. 5:13• 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge; and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude [are] parched with thirst. (Isa. 5:13)
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Isa. 27:11• 11When its branches are withered, they shall be broken off: 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 show them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)
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Isa. 29:14• 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvelously among this people, to do marvelously even with wonder; and the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent ones shall be hid. (Isa. 29:14)
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Isa. 44:19‑20• 19And none taketh it to his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and also have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and with the residue thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
 20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand? (Isa. 44:19‑20)
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Isa. 45:20• 20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god [that] cannot save. (Isa. 45:20)
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Rom. 1:21‑22,28• 21Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
 22Professing to be wise, they became fools,
 28And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things; (Rom. 1:21‑22,28)
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2 Cor. 4:3‑4• 3But if even our gospel is veiled, in those that perish it is veiled,
 4in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth. (2 Cor. 4:3‑4)
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Eph. 4:17‑18• 17This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind,
 18being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart, (Eph. 4:17‑18)
eat up.
Jer. 10:25• 25Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place. (Jer. 10:25)
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Amos 8:4• 4Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land, (Amos 8:4)
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Mic. 3:2‑3• 2Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
 3and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. (Mic. 3:2‑3)
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Gal. 5:15• 15But if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed by one another. (Gal. 5:15)
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Psa. 79:6• 6Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee,{HR}And upon the kingdoms that called not on thy name. (Psa. 79:6)
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Job 21:15• 15What [is] the Almighty that we should serve him?{HR}And what profit have we if we meet him? (Job 21:15)
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Job 27:10• 10Doth he delight in the Almighty?{HR}Doth he call on God at all times? (Job 27:10)
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Isa. 64:7• 7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and made us melt away through our iniquities. (Isa. 64:7)
• It is hardly credible for one that fears God, that this can be so, that there should be no compunction; nothing that stays the heart in wickedness, at least, in deliberate wickedness. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)
• God has looked upon this scene of unparalleled wickedness; now He speaks. He asks, “Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?” Has man become stupid like the beasts? (cf. Isa. 1:3). The way men treat the people of God answers the question. They ill-treat God’s people in utter indifference to God, just as they eat bread without reference to God. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Have they not known, all [the] workers of iniquity,{HR}Eating my people [as] they have eaten bread?{HR}Jehovah they have not called upon.