And they will change their glory into the likeness of an ox eating grass.
Psalm 4:2 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence. 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. |
And they will change their glory into the likeness of an ox eating grass.
Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?
And thou, Jehovah, a shield about me: my glory, and lifting up my head.
I hated those watching vanities of falsehood, and I trusted to Jehovah.
Thou shalt destroy those speaking falsehood: a man of bloods and deceit Jehovah will abhor.
And call upon me in the day of straits: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honor me.
My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
And the king shall rejoice in God; all swearing in him shall glory: for the mouth of those speaking falsehood shall be stopped.
And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me.
How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?
Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.
This an evil in all being done under the sun, thus one event is to all: and also the heart of the sons of man being full of evil, and folly in their heart in their living, and after it to their deaths.
And they were dismayed and ashamed of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Israel was saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed and ye shall not be disgraced even to forever, forever.
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
Did a nation change their gods, and they no gods? and my people changed their glory for what will not profit
Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?
And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.
As they multiplied so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into dishonor.
And Jehovah will say to Moses How long will this people reject me and how long will they not believe in me by all the signs which I did in the midst of them?
Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.
And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.