What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Psalm 14:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and who do not call on the Lord? American Standard Version (1901) Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah? Common English Bible Are they dumb, all these evildoers, devouring my people like they are eating bread but never calling on the LORD? Catholic Public Domain Version In his sight, the malicious one has been reduced to nothing, but he glorifies those who fear the Lord. He who swears to his neighbor and does not deceive. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not; |
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Will they take delight in the Almighty? Will they call upon God at all times?
When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.
When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.
Assemble yourselves and come together; draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
There is no one who calls on your name or attempts to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him and have laid waste his habitation.
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; none of them calls upon me.
Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.