Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

Drunkards

General references

Bible References

They

Deuteronomy 16:18
"You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Matthew 27:12
But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer.
Luke 23:2
And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'--

I was

Psalm 35:15
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
Job 30:8
A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
Mark 15:17
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

Drunkards

Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

General references

Isaiah 24:9
No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
Lamentations 3:14
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.

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