Parallel Verses

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

New American Standard Bible

O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?
How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.

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.

Holman Bible

How long, exalted men, will my honor be insulted?
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.

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

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Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

A Night Prayer

1 When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble {deliver me}. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. 2 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 3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself [the] faithful one. Yahweh hears when I call to him.


Cross References

Psalm 3:3

But you, Yahweh, [are] a shield around me, my glory and the one who lifts up my head.

Psalm 5:6

You destroy speakers of lies. {A man of bloodshed} and deceit Yahweh abhors.

Exodus 10:3

And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.

Numbers 14:11

And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, [and] in all the signs that I have done in their midst?

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside after the triviality, which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality.

Psalm 2:1

Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?

Psalm 14:6

You would put to shame [the] plan of [the] poor, because Yahweh [is] his refuge.

Psalm 31:6

I hate those devoted to useless idols, but I trust Yahweh.

Psalm 57:4

My soul [is] among lions. I lie down [among those who] devour-- the children of humankind whose teeth [are] spears and arrows and whose tongues [are] sharp swords.

Psalm 58:1

Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from [the] womb. They go astray from [the] belly, speaking lies.

Psalm 63:11

However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because [the] mouth of [the] liars will be stopped.

Psalm 72:2

May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

Psalm 106:20

And [so] they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass.

Proverbs 1:22

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This [is] the {injustice} that is done under the sun: the same fate [comes] to everyone. Also the hearts of {humans} are full [of] evil; delusion [is] in their hearts during their lives, and then they die.

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride.

Isaiah 45:17

Israel is saved by Yahweh [with] everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed, and you shall not be humiliated {to all eternity}.

Isaiah 59:4

There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation exchanged gods? And they [are] not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.

Hosea 4:7

When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame.

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.

1 Corinthians 1:31

so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

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