Psalms 4:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— 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 (KJV 1769) [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.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? [how long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? [Selah]
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— 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.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— 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.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Ye sons of the great! how long, turning my glory to contempt, will ye love emptiness, will ye seek falsehood? [Selah.]
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Sons of men! till when [is] my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— O ye sonnes of men, howe long will yee turne my glory into shame, louing vanitie, and seeking lyes? Selah.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— O ye sonnes of men, how long [will yee turne] my glory into shame? [how long] will yee loue vanitie, [and] seeke after leasing? Selah.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Men, how long will you obscure my glory? how long will you love vanity? do you want deception forever?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— O ye sons on men, how long [will ye be] slow of heart? wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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. |
O ye sons
1121 {1121} Primeבֵּןben{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
of men,
376 {0376} Primeאִישׁ'iysh{eesh}
Contracted for H0582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation.).
how long
5704 {5704} Primeעַד`ad{ad}
Properly the same as H5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjugation; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space ( even unto) or time ( during, while, until) or degree ( equally with).
x4100 (4100) Complementמָּהmah{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
[ will ye turn] my glory
3519 {3519} Primeכָּבוֹדkabowd{kaw-bode'}
From H3513; properly weight; but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness.
into shame?
3639
[ how long] will ye love
157 {0157} Primeאָהַב'ahab{aw-hab'}
A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
vanity,
7385 {7385} Primeרִיקriyq{reek}
From H7324; emptiness; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain.
[ and] seek
y1245 [1245] Standardבּקשׁbaqash{baw-kash'}
A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after.
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
after
x1245 (1245) Complementבּקשׁbaqash{baw-kash'}
A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after.
leasing?
3577 {3577} Primeכָּזָבkazab{kaw-zawb'}
From H3576; falsehood; literally ( untruth) or figuratively ( idol).
Selà
סֶלָה.
5542 {5542} Primeסֶלָהcelah{seh'-law}
From H5541; suspension (of music), that is, pause. |
Psalms 4:2
_ _ sons of men — men of note or prominence (compare 2 Chronicles 21:9).
_ _ turn my glory — or, “royal dignity.”
_ _ into shame — or, “reproach.”
_ _ vanity — a foolish and hopeless enterprise (Psalms 2:1).
_ _ leasing — a lie. |
Psalms 4:2
My glory — By his glory probably he means that honour which God had conferred upon him. Vanity — Wickedness. Lying — Those calumnies which they raised against him, to make him odious to all the people. |
Psalms 4:2
O ye (d) sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye (e) love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.
(d) You who think yourselves noble in this world.
(e) Though your enterprises please you, yet God will bring them to nothing. |
- O:
Psalms 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.
Psalms 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?
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.
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- how:
Psalms 72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
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?
Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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- my glory:
Psalms 3:3 But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psalms 14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.
Psalms 106:20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
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.
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.
Hosea 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
1 Corinthians 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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- love:
Psalms 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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.
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?
Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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- leasing:
Psalms 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 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.
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.
Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
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