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 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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