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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• 8Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
 9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? (Psa. 94:8‑9)
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Isa. 5:13• 13Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, 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 shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)
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Isa. 29:14• 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid. (Isa. 29:14)
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Isa. 44:19‑20• 19And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest 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• 20Gather 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, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
 22professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
 28And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things; (Rom. 1:21‑22,28)
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2 Cor. 4:3‑4• 3But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;
 4in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them. (2 Cor. 4:3‑4)
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Eph. 4:17‑18• 17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,
 18being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, (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 one of another. (Gal. 5:15)
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Psa. 79:6• 6Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name: (Psa. 79:6)
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Job 21:15• 15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? (Job 21:15)
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Job 27:10• 10Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God? (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 hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to 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.