But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Psalm 123:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorning of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our life is exceedingly filled with the scorning and scoffing of those who are at ease and with the contempt of the proud (irresponsible tyrants who disregard God's law). American Standard Version (1901) Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. Common English Bible We’ve had more than enough mockery from the self-confident, more than enough shame from the proud. Catholic Public Domain Version perhaps the waters would have engulfed us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. |
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth
I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake mine head at you.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not swerved from thy law.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
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 remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed.
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.
We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.
And as he thus made his defence, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning doth turn thee to madness.
being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance.