Psalms 123:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Ps 119:51 : 51 ¶ The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.
  • Job 12:5 : 5 He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
  • Ps 73:5-9 : 5 They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
  • Isa 32:9 : 9 ¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
  • Isa 32:11 : 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  • Amos 6:1 : 1 ¶ Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
  • Acts 17:21 : 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 ¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 ¶ And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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    3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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    2 If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

    3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

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    5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

    6 ¶ Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to their teeth.

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    4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

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    24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

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  • Ps 44:13-14
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    13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

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  • Ps 17:11
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    14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

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    2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.

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    51 ¶ The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.

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    2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

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  • Lam 5:1
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    1 ¶ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14 I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

  • Neh 4:4
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    4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

  • Hab 1:10
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    10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

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    4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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    18 ¶ Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

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