Psalms 4:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Hos 4:7 : 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
  • Ps 3:3 : 3 But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
  • Ps 2:1 : 1 ¶ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Num 14:11 : 11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
  • 1 Cor 1:31 : 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
  • Ps 14:6 : 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.
  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
  • Ps 63:11 : 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
  • Ps 72:2 : 2 ¶ He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
  • Ps 106:20 : 20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
  • Isa 20:5 : 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
  • Isa 45:17 : 17 [But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

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