Psalms 4:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 4:2

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.

KJV

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ASV

O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? How longwill ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? [Selah

WEB

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

YLT

Sons of men! till when is my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

DBT

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.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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42 verses on the floor

Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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.
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.

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(2.) "You dishonour your Maker, and turn his glory into shame. " They may well be taken as God's own words, charging sinners with the wrong they do him in his honour: or, if David's words, the term glory may be understood of God, whom he called his glory, Ps. iii. Idolaters are charged with changing the glory of God into shame, Rom. i.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

sons of men--men of note or prominence (compare 2Ch 21:9). turn my glory--or, "royal dignity." into shame--or, "reproach." vanity--a foolish and hopeless enterprise (Ps 2:1). leasing--a lie.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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