KJV King James Version
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
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Psalm 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
WEB World English Bible
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Tremble ye, and do not sin;’ Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 4
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me [when I was] in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.
3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
6 [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [that] their corn and their wine increased.
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Ephesians 4:26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:Psalm 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.Psalm 63:6When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.Proverbs 3:7Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.Psalm 46:10Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?Psalm 33:8Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.Job 28:28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.Proverbs 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil.Proverbs 16:17The highway of the upright [is] to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.Psalm 119:161SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.Psalm 2:11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.Psalm 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.Psalm 3:2Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah.Jeremiah 5:22Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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