Psalms 123:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 123

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⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Psalms 123:4 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 119:51
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Job 12:5
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Acts 17:32
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Jeremiah 48:11
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

We have here, I. The solemn profession which God’s people make of faith and hope in God, Ps. 123:1, 2. Observe, 1. The title here given to God: O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Our Lord Jesus has taught us, in prayer, to have an eye to God as our Father in heaven; not that he is confined there, but there especially he manifests his glory, as the King in his court. Heaven is a place of prospect…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. of those that are at ease--self-complacently, disregarding God’s law, and despising His people.