Psalms 4:2 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 4:2

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

BSB

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ASV

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

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

O ye sons of men - בני איש beney ish, ye powerful men - ye who are now at the head of affairs, or who are leaders of the multitude. Love vanity - The poor, empty, shallow-brained, pretty-faced Absalom; whose prospects are all vain, and whose promises are all empty! Seek after leasing? - This is a Saxon word, from falsehood, from to lie. Cardmarden has adopted this word in his translation, Rouen, 15

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3276: “Christ's Glory Turned to Shame” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1911)

DAVID had many times been the subject of cruel mockery and, therefore, while writing this Psalm probably in the first place about himself, he also described in it one of the bitterest of our Savior's sufferings. What an illustration this is of the union which exists between Christ and His people in the matter of experience! He had a Cross to bear and so have they. He was "despised and rejected of men," and so are they.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	O sons of	H1121 →
אִ֡ישׁ	'ish	man	H376 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
מֶ֬ה	meh	when?	H4100 →
כְבוֹדִ֣י	khe.vo.Di	[will] honor my	H3519 →
לִ֭כְלִמָּה	Likh.li.mah	[become] <into> ignominy	H3639 →
תֶּאֱהָב֣וּן	te.'e.ha.Vun	will you love? !	H157 →
רִ֑יק	Rik	vanity	H7385 →
תְּבַקְשׁ֖וּ	te.vak.Shu	will you seek?	H1245 →
כָזָ֣ב	kha.Zav	falsehood	H3577 →
סֶֽלָה׃	Se.lah	Selah	H5542 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 3:3
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
leads to
- Psalms 27:6
  Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.
- Psalms 28:7
  The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
- Genesis 15:1
  After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
- Psalms 119:114
  You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
- Isaiah 60:19
  No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your…
Through
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
leads to
- Romans 1:23
  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- Isaiah 37:19
  They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
Through
Psalms 5:6
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
leads to
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms