Psalm 123:4

Looking For God's Favor

³ Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

Contempt of the Proud

Amos

David

Job

Job 12:5

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

Psalm 119:51

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

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"

Job 16:4

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,

Psalm 73:5-9

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

Isaiah 32:9

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

Jeremiah 48:11

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.

Jeremiah 48:27

For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

Acts 17:21

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.

Acts 17:32

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

Acts 26:24

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

1 Corinthians 4:13

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