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Psalm 94

Psa. 94:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Understand
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
w, ye brutish
ba`ar (Hebrew #1197)
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denominative from 1198) to be(-come) brutish
KJV usage: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set ((on fire)), waste.
Pronounce: baw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
among the 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
: and ye fools
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
, when will ye be wise
sakal (Hebrew #7919)
to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
KJV usage: consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent(-ly), (give) skill(-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand(-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise(- ly), guide wittingly.
Pronounce: saw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. (Psa. 92:6)
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Rom. 3:11• 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (Rom. 3:11)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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brutish.
Psa. 49:10• 10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. (Psa. 49:10)
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Psa. 73:22• 22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. (Psa. 73:22)
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. (Psa. 92:6)
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Prov. 12:1• 1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. (Prov. 12:1)
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Isa. 27:11• 11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the 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 favor. (Isa. 27:11)
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Jer. 8:6‑8• 6I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
 7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
 8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. (Jer. 8:6‑8)
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Jer. 10:8• 8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jer. 10:8)
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Rom. 3:11• 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (Rom. 3:11)
fools.
Deut. 32:29• 29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! (Deut. 32:29)
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Prov. 1:22• 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (Prov. 1:22)
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Prov. 8:5• 5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. (Prov. 8:5)
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Titus 3:3• 3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
• The remnant then plead with the apostate nation to consider that the Lord knows and sees all of their wickedness and therefore to repent of it. They exhort any among them to be found in the way of “the blessed man” who waits on God and is instructed out of His law (vs. 8-15). (“Book 4.” by B. Anstey)
• (vv. 8-11) A solemn warning is addressed to the unbelieving mass of the nation, who are in alliance with the wicked, as to the folly and evil of their way. They are addressed as the “brutish among the people.” (“Psalms 94” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?