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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How long will you people turn my glory(A) into shame?(B)
    How long will you love delusions and seek false gods[a]?[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 4:2 Or seek lies
  2. Psalm 4:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 4.

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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22 “How long will you who are simple(A) love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate(B) knowledge?

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As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

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The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they exchanged their glorious God[a](A) for something disgraceful.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:7 Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text me; / I will exchange their glory

But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

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But you, Lord, are a shield(A) around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.(B)

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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.

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11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods(A) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious(B) God
    for worthless idols.

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20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

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20 They exchanged their glorious God(A)
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

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Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

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    you destroy those who tell lies.(A)
The bloodthirsty and deceitful
    you, Lord, detest.

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25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully(A) to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.(B)

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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.

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11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

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21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

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21 Do not turn away after useless(A) idols.(B) They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.

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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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“Those who cling to worthless idols(A)
    turn away from God’s love for them.

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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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“They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;(A)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge(B) me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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No one calls for justice;(A)
    no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely(B) on empty arguments, they utter lies;(C)
    they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.(D)

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