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Commentary for Psalms 14:4

הֲלֹ֥א יָדְעוּ֮ כָּל־פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י אָ֥וֶן אֹכְלֵ֣י עַ֭מִּי אָ֣כְלוּ לֶ֑חֶם יְ֝הוָ֗ה לֹ֣א קָרָֽאוּ׃

’Shall not all the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?'

Rashi on Psalms

Did not...know? Did they not know at the end what had befallen them?
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Those who devoured My people The seed of Nebuchadnezzar.
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partook of a feast Heb. לחם, lit. bread. They made a feast (as in Dan. 5:1) “made a huge feast (לחם).”
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they did not call upon the Lord They neither considered Him nor remembered His wondrous and awesome deeds at their feast, and [they] used His vessels.
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