Psalms 4:2

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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)

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  • Hos 4:7 : 7 The more the priests increased in numbers, the more they rebelled against me. They have turned their glorious calling into a shameful disgrace!
  • Ps 3:3 : 3 But you, LORD, are a shield that protects me; you are my glory and the one who restores me.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 You destroy liars; the LORD despises violent and deceitful people.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.
  • Ps 2:1 : 1 Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
  • Num 14:11 : 11 The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
  • 1 Cor 1:31 : 31 so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
  • Ps 14:6 : 6 You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the LORD is their shelter.
  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David. Do you rulers really pronounce just decisions? Do you judge people fairly?
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
  • Ps 63:11 : 11 But the king will rejoice in God; everyone who takes oaths in his name will boast, for the mouths of those who speak lies will be shut up.
  • Ps 72:2 : 2 Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably.
  • Ps 106:20 : 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives– then they die.
  • Isa 20:5 : 5 Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.
  • Isa 45:17 : 17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the LORD; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 This is what the Lord says:“What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

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