Psalm 4:2 “How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love van…”

Psalm 4:2

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies ? Selah

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

World English Bible

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.

American Standard Version

O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? [Selah

Geneva Bible 1599

O ye sonnes of men, howe long will yee turne my glory into shame, louing vanitie, and seeking lyes? Selah.

Darby Translation

Ye sons of men, till when is my glory [to be put] to shame? [How long] will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.

Young's Literal Translation

Sons of men! till when [is] my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

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Cross references

“O”

Ecclesiastes 8:11 Psalm 58:1 Psalm 57:4 Ecclesiastes 9:3

Ecclesiastes 8:11 · BSB

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

Psalm 58:1 · BSB

Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

Psalm 57:4 · BSB

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 · BSB

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

“how”

Proverbs 1:22 Psalm 72:2 Exodus 10:3 Numbers 14:11

Proverbs 1:22 · BSB

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Psalm 72:2 · BSB

May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

Exodus 10:3 · BSB

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Numbers 14:11 · BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

“my glory”

Hosea 4:7 Psalm 3:3 Psalm 106:20 Jeremiah 2:11 Psalm 14:6 Isaiah 20:5

Hosea 4:7 · BSB

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

Psalm 3:3 · BSB

But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Psalm 106:20 · BSB

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Jeremiah 2:11 · BSB

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Psalm 14:6 · BSB

You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

Isaiah 20:5 · BSB

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

“love”

1 Samuel 12:21 Psalm 2:1 Isaiah 59:4 Jonah 2:8 Jeremiah 2:5

1 Samuel 12:21 · BSB

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

Psalm 2:1 · BSB

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Isaiah 59:4 · BSB

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Jonah 2:8 · BSB

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Jeremiah 2:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.

“leasing”

Psalm 5:6 Ephesians 4:25 Psalm 58:3 Psalm 63:11 Jeremiah 9:3

Psalm 5:6 · BSB

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

Ephesians 4:25 · BSB

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

Psalm 58:3 · BSB

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

Psalm 63:11 · BSB

But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Jeremiah 9:3 · BSB

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Also

Psalm 31:6

Psalm 31:6 · BSB

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

3Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.

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