Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 123 connects to 10 cross-references. A brief Song of Ascent lifting eyes to the one enthroned in the heavens, as servants look to their master's hand. The psalm expresses dependence on divine mercy and acknowledges present contempt and scorn from the proud and arrogant as …
Other Translations
Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!
For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
Cross References
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us …
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that …
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words …
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird …
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied …
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou …