Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Ye sons of the great! how long, turning my glory to contempt, will ye love emptiness, will ye seek falsehood? Selah.
New American Standard Bible
How long will you love
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 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.
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 When I cry, answer me, O mine own righteous God, In a strait place, thou hast made room for me, Show me favour, and hear my prayer. 2 Ye sons of the great! how long, turning my glory to contempt, will ye love emptiness, will ye seek falsehood? Selah. 3 Know ye, then, that Yahweh hath set apart the man of lovingkindness for himself: Yahweh, will hear, when I cry to him.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:3
But, thou, Yahweh, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
Psalm 5:6
Thou wilt destroy them who speak falsehood, - The man of bloodshed and of deceit, Yahweh abhorreth.
Exodus 10:3
And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him - Thus, saith Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, How long hast thou refused to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that they may serve me.
Numbers 14:11
Then said Yahweh unto How long! must this people, despise me? And how long can they not believe in me. in view of all the signs which I have done in their midst?
1 Samuel 12:21
and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.
Psalm 2:1
Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?
Psalm 14:6
The purpose of the poor, ye would put to shame, because, Yahweh, is his refuge.
Psalm 31:6
I hate such as give heed to false vanities, I, then, in Yahweh, have set my hope.
Psalm 57:4
My soul, is in the midst of lions, I lie down amidst flames, As for the sons of men, Their teeth, are spear and arrows, And, their tongue, is a sharp sword.
Psalm 58:1
Are ye, indeed, silent when righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
Psalm 58:3
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
Psalm 63:11
But, the king, shall rejoice in God, - Every one shall glory who sweareth by him, For the mouth of them who speak falsehood, shall be stopped.
Psalm 72:2
May he judge, Thy people with righteousness; And thine oppressed ones with justice;
Psalm 106:20
Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and, scoffers, in scoffing, delight them? and, dullards, hate knowledge?
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against a wicked work is not executed speedily - on this account, the heart of the sons of men is fully set within them, to commit wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This was a misfortune in all that was done under the sun, that, one destiny, had they all, - yea also, the heart of the sons of men, was full of wickedness, and, madness, was in their heart, while they lived, and, after that, they went unto the dead.
Isaiah 20:5
Thus shall they be confounded and turn pale, - For Ethiopia, their expectation, and For Egypt their boast;
Isaiah 45:17
Israel, hath been delivered by Yahweh, with an age-abiding deliverance, - Ye shall neither turn pale nor he put to shame, unto the ages of futurity,.
Isaiah 59:4
None, sueth in righteousness, and None, pleadeth in faithfulness, - Men are trusting in confusion, And speaking vanity, Conceiving wickedness And bringing forth iniquity:
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus, saith Yahweh, - What did your fathers find in me by way of perversity, that they removed far from me, - and went after vanity, and became vain?
Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation, changed gods, although they were No-gods? Yet my people have changed my glory for that which could not profit!
Jeremiah 9:3
Who have prepared e their tongue as their bow of falsehood, And, not by faithfulness, have they become mighty in the land, - For from wickedness unto wickedness, have they gone forth, But me, have they not known, Declareth Yahweh.
Hosea 4:7
As they were magnified, so, they sinned against me, - My glory - for what was contemptible, did they exchange.
Jonah 2:8
They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.
1 Corinthians 1:31
In order that, even as it is written - He that boasteth, in the Lord, let him boast.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;