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, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
• Hos 4:7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
• Ps 3:3But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
• Jer 2:11Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
• Ps 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
• Ps 106:20Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
• Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
• Eccl 8:11Because 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.
• 1 Sam 12:21Don’t turn aside to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
• Ps 31:6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
• Ps 63:11But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
• Ps 58:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
• Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Isa 20:5They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
• Isa 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
• Ps 14:6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
• Jer 9:3“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
• Jonah 2:8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Ps 58:3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
• Num 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
• Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Eccl 9:3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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.
• 1 Cor 1:31that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
• Jer 2:5Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

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