A Night Prayer

¹ For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic psalm.Answer me when I call,
God, who vindicates me.
You freed me from affliction;
be gracious to me and hear my prayer. ² How long, exalted men, will my honor be insulted?
How long will you love what is worthless
and pursue a lie?Selah
³ Know that the Lord has set apart
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

How Long

Put to Shame

Sons of Men

Selah

Psalm 3:3

But You, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the One who lifts up my head.

Psalm 5:6

You destroy those who tell lies;
the Lord abhors a man of bloodshed and treachery.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told 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 worship Me.

Numbers 14:11

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.

Psalm 2:1

Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 14:6

You sinners frustrate the plans of the afflicted,
but the Lord is his refuge.

Psalm 31:6

I hate those who are devoted to worthless idols,
but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions;
I lie down with those who devour men.
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 58:1

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A Davidic Miktam.Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones?
Do you judge people fairly?

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars err from birth.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will rejoice in God;
all who swear by Him will boast,
for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Psalm 72:2

He will judge Your people with righteousness
and Your afflicted ones with justice.

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
How long will you mockers enjoy mocking
and you fools hate knowledge?

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against a criminal act is not carried out quickly, the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit crime.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live—after that they go to the dead.

Isaiah 20:5

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

Isaiah 45:17

Israel will be saved by the Lord
with an everlasting salvation;
you will not be put to shame or humiliated
for all eternity.

Isaiah 59:4

No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says:

What fault did your fathers find in Me
that they went so far from Me,
followed worthless idols,
and became worthless themselves?

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Hosea 4:7

The more they multiplied,
the more they sinned against Me.
I will change their honor into disgrace.

Jonah 2:8

Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,

1 Corinthians 1:31

in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

Ephesians 4:25

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.