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Psalm 14:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

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What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.

They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.




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