Psalms 123:4

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Our souls have had more than enough of the mocking of the complacent, and the contempt of the arrogant.

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  • Ps 119:51 : 51 The arrogant mock me incessantly, but I do not turn away from Your law.
  • Job 12:5 : 5 "Those who are at ease hold contempt for misfortune, as if it were prepared for the feet of those slipping."
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I could also speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
  • Ps 73:5-9 : 5 They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills. 6 Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice. 8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arabian heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
  • Isa 32:9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say!
  • Isa 32:11 : 11 Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 Moab has been at ease from her youth, settled on her dregs, not poured from vessel to vessel, nor gone into exile. Therefore her taste remains, and her aroma is unchanged.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 Was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you wag your head in scorn?
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 We have heard of Moab's pride—so very proud—his arrogance, pride, conceit, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  • Amos 6:1 : 1 Woe to those who are complacent in Zion and trust in Mount Samaria, notable men among the foremost of nations, to whom the house of Israel comes.
  • Acts 17:21 : 21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock, but others said, 'We want to hear you again on this matter.'
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 While Paul was making his defense, Festus said loudly, 'You are out of your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane.'
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 When we are slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all, even until now.

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  • 3 Show us mercy, O LORD, show us mercy, for we have had more than enough of scorn.

  • Ps 124:2-8
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    2 if the Lord had not been on our side when people rose up against us,

    3 then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

    4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the torrent would have swept over our being.

    5 Then the raging waters would have passed over our soul.

    6 Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

    7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

    8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

  • 4 We have become an object of scorn to our neighbors, mocked and ridiculed by those around us.

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    45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

    46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Ps 44:24-25
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    24 Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.

    25 Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?

  • 24 The proud and arrogant person, named 'Scoffer,' acts with excessive pride.

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    13 You sold Your people for nothing and made no profit from their sale.

    14 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

  • 11 They track my every step; they surround me and set their eyes to bring me down to the ground.

  • 14 O God, arrogant people have risen against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set You before them.

  • 2 I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.

  • 5 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

  • 51 The arrogant mock me incessantly, but I do not turn away from Your law.

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    2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter, and our tongues with joyful songs. Then it was said among the nations, 'The LORD has done great things for them.'

    3 The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.

  • 6 You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears in abundance.

  • 1 Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look and see our disgrace.

  • 14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long.

  • 4 Then Judah said, 'The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubble that we are unable to rebuild the wall.'

  • 10 They mock kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to capture it.

  • 4 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks with arrogance.

  • 4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • 4 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and they will trust in the LORD.

  • 40 He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • 1 A song of ascents. LORD, my heart is not proud, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with matters too great or too wonderful for me.

  • 7 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

  • 11 Scatter the outbursts of your anger, and look at every proud one and bring him low.

  • 50 Where is your steadfast love of old, LORD, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

  • 4 They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

  • 5 "Those who are at ease hold contempt for misfortune, as if it were prepared for the feet of those slipping."

  • 25 Do not let them say in their hearts, 'Aha, just what we wanted!' Do not let them say, 'We have swallowed him up!'

  • 16 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face.

  • 10 This will be their lot in return for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of Hosts.

  • 18 Remember this, O LORD, that the enemy has insulted You, and a foolish people has despised Your name.

  • 15 Blessed are the people whose situation is such; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

  • 22 Remove from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

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    2 LORD, how many are my enemies! Many are rising up against me.

  • 12 Repay our neighbors sevenfold into their own laps the scorn they have hurled at You, Lord.

  • 15 Now we call the proud blessed, for those who do evil prosper, and those who test God escape.'

  • 3 Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

  • 19 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them.

  • 2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.