Psalms 123:4
Exceeding sated therewith, is our soul,—The scorn of the careless, The contempt of the proud.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
3Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt:
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:42And, when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him,—for he was a youth, and ruddy, a stripling of fair countenance.
Job 12:5For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease,—ready, for such as are of faltering foot!
Psalms 73:5Of the toil of weak mortals, have they none, Nor, with the sons of earth, are they hard smitten.
Isaiah 32:9Ye women in comfort! arise hear my voice, Ye daughters so confident give ear to my speech:—
Jeremiah 48:11Moab, hath been at ease from his youth, And settled is he upon his lees, And hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, Nor into captivity, hath gone,—For this cause, hath his flavour stood still within him, And his scent is unchanged.
Jeremiah 48:29We have heard the arrogance of Moab—proud exceedingly: His loftiness and his arrogance and his majesty, and his elevation of 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 →