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Psalm 53:4

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4 Don't they know anything, all these impostors? Don't they know they can't get away with this, Treating people like a fast-food meal over which they're too busy to pray?

Psalm 53:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
&c.] In ( Psalms 14:4 ) , it is, "have all the workers" There are none of them but what have, unless given up to judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, to believe a lie, as antichrist and his followers, ( 2 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Thessalonians 2:11 ) ; (See Gill on Psalms 14:4);

who eat up my people, [as] they eat bread;
and drink their blood, and are drunken with it, ( Revelation 17:6 ) ;

they have not called upon God;
but upon their idols, upon the Virgin Mary, and saints departed. In ( Psalms 14:4 ) , it is, "upon the Lord".

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Psalm 53:4 In-Context

2 God sticks his head out of heaven. He looks around. He's looking for someone not stupid - one man, even, God-expectant, just one God-ready woman.
3 He comes up empty. A string of zeros. Useless, unshepherded Sheep, taking turns pretending to be Shepherd. The ninety and nine follow the one.
4 Don't they know anything, all these impostors? Don't they know they can't get away with this, Treating people like a fast-food meal over which they're too busy to pray?
5 Night is coming for them, and nightmare - a nightmare they'll never wake up from. God will make hash of these squatters, send them packing for good.
6 Is there anyone around to save Israel? God turns life around. Turned-around Jacob skips rope, turned-around Israel sings laughter.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.

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