But when Sanvallat the Choronite, and Toviyah the servant, the `Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
Psalm 123:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 Sanvallat the Choronite, and Toviyah the servant, the `Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
Mo'av has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
For wasn't Yisra'el a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head.
We have heard of the pride of Mo'av, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Woe to those who are at ease in Tziyon, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Shomron, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra'el come!
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living 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 want to hear you again concerning this.*
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, *Sha'ul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!*
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
When the Pelishti looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face.