Parallel Verses
King James Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
How long will you love
Holman Bible
How long will you love what is worthless
and pursue a lie?Selah
International Standard Version
You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude
A Conservative Version
O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
American Standard Version
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
Amplified
O sons of men, how long will my honor and glory be [turned into] shame?
How long will you [my enemies] love worthless (vain, futile) things and seek deception and lies? Selah.
Bible in Basic English
O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Ye sons of men, till when is my glory to be put to shame? How long will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence.
King James 2000
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah
Modern King James verseion
O sons of men, how long will you turn My glory into shame? Will you love vanity and seek after a lie? Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
NET Bible
You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive? (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye sons of the great! how long, turning my glory to contempt, will ye love emptiness, will ye seek falsehood? Selah.
Webster
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
World English Bible
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sons of men! till when is my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 4:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Night Prayer
1 {To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. 2 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. 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:3
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psalm 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Exodus 10:3
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Numbers 14:11
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
1 Samuel 12:21
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Psalm 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalm 14:6
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalm 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 58:1
{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalm 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm 72:2
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalm 106:20
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, 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.
Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 45:17
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah 9:3
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.
Hosea 4:7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
1 Corinthians 1:31
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.