Psalms 123:4
Our soul has been greatly filled || With the scorning of the easy ones, || With the contempt of the arrogant!
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
3Favor us, O YHWH, favor us, || For we have been greatly filled with contempt,
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:42and the Philistine looks attentively, and sees David, and despises him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance.
Job 12:5A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure || Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
Psalms 73:5They are not in the misery of mortals, || And they are not plagued with common men.
Isaiah 32:9Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, || Daughters, confident ones, give ear [to] my saying,
Jeremiah 48:11Moab is secure from his youth, || And he [is] at rest for his preserved things, || And he has not been emptied out from vessel to vessel, || And he has not gone into captivity, || Therefore his taste has remained in him, || And his fragrance has not been changed.
Jeremiah 48:29We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, || Exceedingly proud! His haughtiness, and his arrogance, || And his pride, and the height of his heart,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 123:2-4
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord , have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. We have… Read the whole commentary →