² Sons of men! till when `is' my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

⁷ According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.

⁶ Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

³ And Thou, O Jehovah, `art' a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

²¹ and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,

¹⁷ Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

¹¹ Hath a nation changed gods? (And they `are' no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

³ And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

³¹ that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

⁵ and they have been affrighted and ashamed of Cush their confidence, and of Egypt their beauty,

³ This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

¹¹ Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

¹ Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

⁶ The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah `is' his refuge.

⁶ I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

⁴ My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

¹ To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

³ The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

¹¹ And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

² He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

²⁰ And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

³ And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,