Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
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- KJV Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- BSB Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- ESV Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
- NKJV Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the Lord?
- NASB ¶Do all the workers of injustice not know, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord?
- NLT Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
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- Ps 79:6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
- Jer 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
- Ps 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- Isa 64:7There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
- Eph 4:17–18This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
- Ps 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Hos 7:7They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
- Mic 3:2–3You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
- Isa 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
- Isa 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
- Ps 94:8–9Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
- Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
- Rom 1:21–22Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
- Isa 44:19–20No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
- Isa 5:13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
- 2 Cor 4:3–4Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
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