Psalms 123:4

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:51 : 51 The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.
  • Job 12:5 : 5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
  • Job 16:4 : 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,
  • Ps 73:5-9 : 5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. 8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks 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 ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"
  • Isa 32:9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
  • Isa 32:11 : 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
  • Jer 48:11 : 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.
  • Jer 48:27 : 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.
  • Jer 48:29 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 Cor 4:13 : 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

  • Ps 124:2-8
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    78%

    2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

    3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

    4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

    5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

    6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

    7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

    8 Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. A Song of Ascents.

  • Ps 79:4
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    4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

    46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

  • Ps 44:24-25
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    72%

    24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

    25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • Prov 21:24
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    24 The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

  • Ps 44:13-14
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    13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

    14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Ps 86:14
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    14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • Ps 34:2
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    2 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

  • Ps 140:5
    70%

    5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Ps 119:51
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    51 The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.

  • Ps 126:2-3
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    70%

    2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."

    3 Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • Lam 5:1
    70%

    1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • Lam 3:14
    69%

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

  • Neh 4:4
    69%

    4 "Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Hab 1:10
    69%

    10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

  • Ps 12:4
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    4 who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • Ps 40:4
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    4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • Ps 131:1
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    1 Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • Job 40:11
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    11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

  • Ps 89:50
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    50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

  • Ps 94:4
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    4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

  • Job 12:5
    69%

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

  • Ps 35:25
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    25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

  • Ps 44:16
    69%

    16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

  • Ps 74:18
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    18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

  • Ps 144:15
    68%

    15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. A praise psalm by David.

  • Ps 119:22
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    22 Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

  • Ps 3:2
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    2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

  • Ps 79:12
    68%

    12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

  • Mal 3:15
    68%

    15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • Job 22:19
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    19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

  • Ps 10:2
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    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.