O men,[a] how long shall my honor be turned into shame?
    How long will you love vain words and seek after (A)lies? Selah

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  1. Psalm 4:2 Or O men of rank

22 “How long, O (A)simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will (B)scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools (C)hate knowledge?

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(A)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    (B)I will change their glory into shame.

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But you, O Lord, are (A)a shield (B)about me,
    my glory, and (C)the lifter of my head.

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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
    (B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
    for (D)that which does not profit.

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20 They (A)exchanged the glory of God[a]
    for the image of an ox that eats grass.

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  1. Psalm 106:20 Hebrew exchanged their glory

You destroy those who speak (A)lies;
    the Lord abhors (B)the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you (A)speak the truth with his neighbor, for (B)we are members one of another.

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11 Because (A)the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, (B)the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

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21 And (A)do not turn aside after (B)empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

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(A)Those who pay regard to vain idols
    (B)forsake their hope of steadfast love.

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(A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    (B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong

(A)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    (B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
    with everlasting salvation;
(A)you shall not be put to shame or confounded
    to all eternity.

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(A)Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.

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11 But (A)the king shall rejoice in God;
    all who (B)swear by him shall exult,
    (C)for the mouths of (D)liars will be stopped.

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The wicked are (A)estranged from the womb;
    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

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God Who Judges the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Do Not Destroy. A (B)Miktam[a] of David.

58 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[b]
    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

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  1. Psalm 58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)

My soul is in the midst of (A)lions;
    I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose (B)teeth are spears and arrows,
    whose (C)tongues are sharp swords.

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I (A)hate[a] those who pay (B)regard to worthless (C)idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.

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  1. Psalm 31:6 Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate

You would shame the plans of the poor,
    but[a] the Lord is his (A)refuge.

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  1. Psalm 14:6 Or for

The Reign of the Lord's Anointed

(A)Why do (B)the nations rage[a]
    and the peoples plot in vain?

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  1. Psalm 2:1 Or nations noisily assemble

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that (A)the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and (B)madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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May he (A)judge your people with righteousness,
    and your poor with justice!

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11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people (A)despise me? And how long will they not (B)believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

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