Psalms 53:4
What does Psalms 53:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 53:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not uponGod.
Context
v.3Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
v.4This passage
v.5There were 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.
- Psalms 94:8
Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
- Jeremiah 10:25
Pour 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 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
- Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Isaiah 27:11
When 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 show them no favor.
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