² You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

⁷ As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

⁶ You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

³ But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, My glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

²⁵ Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.

²¹ and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

¹⁷ [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.

⁴ None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁵ thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

¹¹ Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

³ They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

³¹ that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

⁵ They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

³ This 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.

¹¹ Because 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.

¹¹ Yahweh 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?

¹ Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?

⁶ You frustrate the plan of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.

⁶ I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.

⁴ My 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.

¹ > Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

³ The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

¹¹ But 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.

² He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.

²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.

²² "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?

³ Moses 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.