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Verse Psalms 14:4. _HAVE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY NO KNOWLEDGE?_]
Is there not one of them who takes this dreadful subject into
consideration? To their deeply fallen state they add cruelty; they
op...
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HAVE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY NO KNOWLEDGE? - literally, “Do they
not know, all the workers of iniquity, eating my people, they eat
bread; Jehovah they call not.” The several statements in this ver...
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Psalms 14
_ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_
2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7)
Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
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PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an
examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for
the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text
presen...
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EAT UP MY PEOPLE. Compare Jeremiah 10:25.Amos 8:4.Micah 3:3. Between
Psalms 14:3 and...
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Jehovah Himself speaks. The first clause may be taken as in A.V.,
-Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?" Are they so ignorant
that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong? Cp. Psalms...
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The corruption of men exemplified in their oppression of Jehovah's
people. Its condign punishment....
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HAVE ALL THE WORKERS &C.— _Do they not observe, all the dealers in
vanity, devourers of my people? They eat bread, they called not upon
the Lord:_ Psalms 14:5. _They were upon the spot, in a great fea...
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PSALMS 14
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when
confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
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_HAVE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY NO KNOWLEDGE? WHO EAT UP MY PEOPLE
AS THEY EAT BREAD, AND CALL NOT UPON THE LORD._
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? - expressing wonder at
the monstrou...
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This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of
society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's
authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
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God speaks in surprise at the folly of the wicked. EAT UP MY PEOPLE
_as_ THEY EAT BREAD] conduct at once rapacious and unconcerned.
CALL NOT UPON THE LORD] Such wickedness is naturally prayerless.
Th...
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Psalms 1:41
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the *
before a word to show an explanation.
The translated Bible tex...
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HAVE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY NO KNOWLEDGE? — _i.e.,_ are they so
senseless as not to perceive the consequences of their wrong-doing? or
if we point the verb as the LXX. and Vulg., “shall they not...
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הֲ לֹ֥א יָדְעוּ֮ כָּל ־פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י
אָ֥וֶן אֹכְ
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Psalms 14:1
THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms
12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the
former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
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THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN
Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1
The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline
persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries,
_How long...
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Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of
godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands
for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is
r...
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Nothing. He despises all wickedness, though done by kings, whose power
he considers as the means of destruction, 1 Kings xv. 26., and Luke
xxiii. 9. The wicked dares not appear before an upright judge...
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The sad blindness of men's minds in their denying the existence of
God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such
unbelief, as strongly pointed out in the fear of such a guilty mi...
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This question is added to give a more amplified illustration of the
preceding doctrine. The prophet had said that God observed from heaven
the doings of men, and had found all of them gone out of the...
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In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is
ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when
He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
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HAVE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY NO KNOWLEDGE?.... Of the being of
God, of the nature of sin, and of the punishment due unto it? This
question is put either by way of admiration, as Kimchi and Aben Ez...
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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
[as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Ver. 4. _Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?_] No, not so
much as Pilat...
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_Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?_ Have they lost their
senses? Have they neither religion nor common discretion, either of
which might teach them not to fight against Omnipotence, not to se...
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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Are they so utterly
stupid, devoid of all sense? Has the judgment upon them so stultified
their minds that they believe their hypocrisy undiscovered by G...
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OF THE CORRUPTION OF NATURAL MAN AND THE LORD'S SALVATION.
This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was
specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the
oppression...
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HAVE THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY lost their wits? have they neither
religion nor common discretion? either of which would teach them not
to make themselves so hateful to the all-seeing and almighty God, a...
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Psalms 14:4 workers H6466 (H8802) iniquity H205 knowledge H3045
(H8804) up H398 (H8802) people H5971 eat...
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‘Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who devour my people as they eat bread,
And call not on YHWH?
There were they in great fear,
For God is in the generation of the righteous.
You put...
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Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._
He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it
except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
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CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly
incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
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Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says,
_there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness
of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
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_Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?_
CONSCIENCE
I. Conscience informed. It is quite true that the workers of iniquity
seem like brute beasts, as if they had no common sense, no conscienc...
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_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._
THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and
starts a train of thought whi...
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INTRODUCTION
“It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm.
The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers
pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
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EXPOSITION
IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of
God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the
sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt,
they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The
LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
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2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Amos 8:4; Ephesians 4:17;...
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Bread — With as little remorse, and with as much greediness. Call
not — They are guilty not only of gross injustice towards men, but
also of horrid impiety and contempt of God....