Psalms 123:4 Cross References - BBE

⁴ For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

¹⁹ But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

⁵ In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

⁴ It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

⁵ They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men. ⁶ For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. ⁷ Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. ⁸ Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. ⁹ Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

⁵¹ The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

⁹ Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

¹¹ Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

¹¹ From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

²⁷ For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

²⁹ We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.

¹ Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!

²¹ Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.

³² Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

²⁴ And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.

¹³ When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.