Psalms 14:4

David asks whether evildoers are so ignorant that they devour God's people like bread and never call on the Lord. It matters because oppression of the righteous flows from refusing to acknowledge God.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
• Jer 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
• Ps 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Isa 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
• Eph 4:17–18So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Ps 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• Hos 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
• Mic 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
• Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
• Isa 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
• Isa 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
• Ps 94:8–9Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Rom 1:21–22For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• Isa 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
• Isa 44:19–20And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
• Isa 5:13Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
• Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
• 2 Cor 4:3–4And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

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