Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.

New American Standard Bible

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

King James Version

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

International Standard Version

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on God.

A Conservative Version

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?

American Standard Version

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?

Amplified


Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.

Bible in Basic English

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Darby Translation

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.

Julia Smith Translation

Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.

King James 2000

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.

Modern King James verseion

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?

NET Bible

All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.

New Heart English Bible

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

The Emphasized Bible

Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.

Webster

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread! they have not called upon God.

World English Bible

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

Youngs Literal Translation

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

Context Readings

There Is None Who Does Good

3 All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.
4 Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.
5 Then they will be filled with terror—
terror like no other
because God will scatter
the bones of those who besiege you.
You will put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.


Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,
my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

Psalm 94:8

Pay attention, you stupid people!
Fools, when will you be wise?

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don’t recognize You
and on the families
that don’t call on Your name,
for they have consumed Jacob;
they have consumed him and finished him off
and made his homeland desolate.

Matthew 23:17-39

Blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold?

Revelation 17:16

The 10 horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her up with fire.

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