Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
Psalm 4:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O you sons of men, how long will you turn my honor and glory into shame? How long will you love vanity and futility and seek after lies? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) 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 Common English Bible How long, you people, will my reputation be insulted? How long will you continue to love what is worthless and go after lies? Selah Catholic Public Domain Version When I called upon him, the God of my justice heeded me. In tribulation, you have enlarged me. Have mercy on me, and heed my prayer. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer. |
Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
You will destroy those who speak lies. The LORD abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.*
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Moshe and Aharon went in to Par`oh, and said to 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, that they may serve me.
*How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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.
They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Kush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
[But] Yisra'el shall be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
thus says the LORD, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says the LORD.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
The LORD said to Moshe, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
The Judeans also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
that, according as it is written, *He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.*
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.