Psalms 4:2 KJV
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.
Words Then and Now
- leasing lying; falsehood Webster’s 1828 · Leasing
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Thou and Ye
- ye more than one
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Parallel Passages
- Hosea 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Hosea 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
- Psalms 3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
- Psalms 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- 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.
- Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- 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?
- Psalms 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Psalms 14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
- Psalms 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
- 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?
- 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.
- Psalms 72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
- Psalms 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.
- 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.
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Bible Dictionary
- SelahA word frequently found in the Book of Psalms, and also in Hab 3:9, Hab 3:13, about seventy-four times in all in Scripture. Its meaning...
Hebrew and Strong’s
- O ye sons בְּנֵי bĕnê בֵּן Noun · masculine plural construct
- of men אִישׁ ʾîš אִישׁ Noun · masculine singular
- how long עַד ʿad עַד Preposition מֶה mê Interrogative
- my glory כְבוֹדִי kĕbôdî כָּבוֹד Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- into shame לִכְלִמָּה liklimmâ כְּלִמָּה Noun · feminine singular · with preposition
- will ye love תֶּאֱהָבוּן teʾĕhābûn אָהַב Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural
- vanity רִיק rîq רִיק Noun · masculine singular
- seek תְּבַקְשׁוּ tĕbaqšû בָּקַשׁ Verb · piel imperfect, second person masculine plural
- after leasing כָזָב kāzāb כָּזָב Noun · masculine singular
- Selah סֶלָה selâ סֶלָה Interjection
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