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How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame?
    How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah(A)

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

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The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they changed[a] their glory into shame.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.7 Tg Syr: MT I will change

But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
    my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.(A)

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 106.20 Compare Gk mss: Heb exchanged their glory

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

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Rules for the New Life

25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)

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11 Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.

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21 and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.(A)

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Those who worship vain idols
    forsake their true loyalty.(A)

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They bend their tongues like bows;
    they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    and they do not know me, says the Lord.(A)

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No one brings suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies,
    conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.(A)

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

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

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

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

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Psalm 58

Prayer for Vengeance

To the leader: Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam.

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?
    Do you judge people fairly?(A)

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I lie down among lions
    that greedily devour[a] human prey;
their teeth are spears and arrows,
    their tongues sharp swords.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 57.4 Cn: Heb are aflame for

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

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Footnotes

  1. 31.6 Heb ms Gk Syr Jerome: MT I hate

You would confound the plans of the poor,
    but the Lord is their refuge.(A)

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Psalm 2

God’s Promise to His Anointed

Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?(A)

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This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.(A)

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

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11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?(A)

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