And the evil people say,\par ‘Who is God All-Powerful?\par We don’t need to serve him!\par It won’t help to pray to him!’\par
Psalm 14:4 - Easy To Read Version Bad people have destroyed my people.\par And those bad people don’t know God.\par Bad people have plenty of food to eat. {\cf2\super [76]} \par And they don’t even worship the Lord.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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; |
And the evil people say,\par ‘Who is God All-Powerful?\par We don’t need to serve him!\par It won’t help to pray to him!’\par
That person should have enjoyed\par \{talking with\} God All-Powerful.\par That person should have prayed to God\par all the time.\par
Evil people might attack me.\par They might try to destroy my body.\par My enemies might try to attack\par and destroy me.\par
God, turn your anger against the nations that don’t know you.\par Turn your anger against nations\par that don’t worship your name.\par
“They {\cf2\super [475]} don’t know what is happening.\par They don’t understand!\par They don’t know what they are doing,\par Their world is falling down around them!”\par
There are people whose teeth are like swords. Their jaws are like knives. They use their time to take everything they can from poor people.
The vines will become dry. And the branches will break off. Women will use those branches for firewood.
So I will continue to amaze these people by doing powerful and amazing things. Their wise men will lose their wisdom. Their wise men will not be able to understand.”
“You people have escaped from other nations. So gather together and come before me. (These people carry statues of false gods. These people pray to those useless gods. But the people don’t know what they are doing.
\{The Lord says,\} “My people will be captured and taken away. Why? Because they don’t really know \{me\}. Some of the people living in Israel are important now. They are happy with their easy lives. But all those great people will become very thirsty and very hungry.
We are all dirty with sin.\par Even our good works \{are not pure\}.\par They are like blood-stained rags.\par We are all like dead leaves.\par Our sins have carried us away like wind.\par
We don’t worship you.\par We don’t trust in your name.\par We aren’t excited about following you.\par So you have turned away from us.\par We are helpless before you,\par because we are full of sin.\par
If you are angry, then punish the other nations.\par They don’t know or respect you.\par Those people don’t worship you.\par Those nations destroyed Jacob’s family.\par They destroyed Israel completely.\par They destroyed Israel’s homeland.\par
They are all like hot ovens.\par They destroyed their rulers.\par All of their kings fell.\par Not one of them called to me for help.”\par
Listen to me!\par You people walk on helpless people.\par You are trying to destroy the poor people of this country.\par
People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.
If you continue hurting each other and tearing each other apart, be careful! You will completely destroy each other.