Psalms 53:4 · KJV
“Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread: they have not called upon God.”
— Psalms 53:4
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one.
There were they in great fear, {where} no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth {against} thee: thou hast put {them} to shame, because God hath despised them. {were...: Heb. they feared a fear}
Psalms 53 — Context
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were {any} that did understand, that did seek God.
3Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one.
4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
5There were they in great fear, {where} no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth {against} thee: thou hast put {them} to shame, because God hath despised them. {were...: Heb. they feared a fear}
6Oh that the salvation of Israel {were come} out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, {and} Israel shall be glad. {Oh that...: Heb. Who will give salvation, etc}
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Psalms 27:2
When the wicked, {even} mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. {came...: Heb. approached against me}
Psalms 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye} fools, when will ye be wise?
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Matthew 23:17-39
{Ye} fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?