Psalms 4:2

David confronts those who shame him and pursue empty, false things. He challenges the folly of loving vanity over the living God.

Cross-references · 27

• Prov 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
• Hos 4:7The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
• Ps 3:3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
• Jer 2:11Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
• Ps 5:6You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
• Ps 106:20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
• Eph 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
• Eccl 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
• 1 Sam 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
• Ps 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
• Ps 63:11But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
• Ps 58:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
• Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Isa 20:5Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.
• Isa 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
• Ps 14:6You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.
• Jer 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Isa 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
• Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
• Ps 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Ps 72:2May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.
• Num 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
• Exod 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
• Eccl 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
• 1 Cor 1:31Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
• Jer 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

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