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 free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.

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

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, 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, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

General references

When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

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

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations: