Psalm 123:4

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Summary

Psalm 123:4

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

With the scorning

General references

Proverbs 18:3

Lamentations 3:14

Ezekiel 36:6

Bible References

With the scorning

They are not in trouble as [other] men, nor are they plagued like [other] men.

The proud have had me greatly in derision, [yet] I have not swerved from thy law.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips.

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.

And while he made a defense by these things, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, thou are mad. Much scholarship is driving thee into madness.

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

General references

When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, and with disgrace, reproach.

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne t