I Lift Up My Eyes to You

Psalms 123:4

In 11 translations

BSB: We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
KJV: Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
WEB: Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
ASV: Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
LSV: Our soul has been greatly filled || With the scorning of the easy ones, || With the contempt of the arrogant!
YLT: Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!
DBY: Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
DRC122:4: For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
GNV: Our soule is filled too full of ye mocking of the wealthy, and of the despitefulnes of the proude.
JPS: Our soul is full sated with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud oppressors.
LXXE122:4: Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.Or, we are the reproach of them that are at ease.

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Written (Ketiv): לְגַאֲ֥יוֹנִים׃ (“of the secure [people]”). Read aloud (Qere): לִגְאֵי יוֹנִים׃ (“of arrogant opressors”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

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Leningrad Codex reads לִגְאֵ֥יוֹנִֽים׃; read aloud (Qere) reads לִגְאֵי יוֹנִים׃ (“of arrogant opressors”).

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WLC: רַבַּת֮ שָֽׂבְעָה־לָּ֪הּ נַ֫פְשֵׁ֥נוּ הַלַּ֥עַג הַשַּׁאֲנַנִּ֑ים הַ֝בּ֗וּז לִגְאֵ֥יוֹנִֽים׃We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
LXX-Br122:4: Ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐπλήσθη ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν· τὸ ὄνειδος τοῖς εὐθηνοῦσι καὶ ἡ ἐξουδένωσις τοῖς ὑπερηφάνοις.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Contempt Scorn Scorning and Mocking Afflictions and Adversities

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

Psalms 119:51The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
Job 12:5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Acts 17:32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
1 Corinthians 4:13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Acts 26:24At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
Psalms 73:5–9They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men. Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them. From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their…
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Jeremiah 48:29We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
Jeremiah 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

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