Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 123:4
With the scornful and contemptuous carriage of thine and our enemies, who live in great ease and glory, whilst we, thy people, are overwhelmed with manifold calamities.
With the scornful and contemptuous carriage of thine and our enemies, who live in great ease and glory, whilst we, thy people, are overwhelmed with manifold calamities.
Verse Psalms 123:4. _THOSE THAT ARE AT EASE_] The Babylonians, who, having subdued all the people of the neighbouring nations, lived _at ease_, had none to contend with them, and now became luxurious,...
OUR SOUL IS EXCEEDINGLY FILLED - Thoroughly sated. This verse states the nature and the source of the contempt which they were called to bear. WITH THE SCORNING OF THOSE THAT ARE AT EASE - According t...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXIII. WAITING FOR GOD. Psalms 123:4. The contempt of the proud may have been caused by their own wealth, and by the poverty of the godly (see on Psalms 4). Poor and godly are almost synonymous. The...
OUR SOUL. we. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13). SCORNING. the scoffing. The reference is to the scoffing of Sennacherib and Rab-shakeh (2 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 19:8; 2 Chronicles 32:10;...
OF THOSE THAT ARE AT EASE— Or, _Of the insolent._ The Hebrew word שׁאננים _shaanannim_ is used not only for _quiet_ or _secure,_ in the original notion, but, by a metonymy of the cause for the effect,...
PSALMS 123 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The King's Response to the Injunction to Lift up his Eyes as High as Heaven. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 123:1, An Individualistic Couplet by way of Response to the Exho...
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. The Psalmist's looking up to God is like that of servants patiently looking for mercy from their master (Psalms 123:1); prayer fo...
The Psalmist looks up steadfastly to God, and expresses his confidence in Him....
THE SCORNING OF THOSE, etc.] the mocking of them that are at ease—heathen oppressors living in careless security. The circumstances are similar to those in Psalms 120....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 123 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
THE SCORNING. — The Hebrew offers a rare use of the article — probably it should be reproduced by our demonstrative, _this scorning._ The LXX., however, have, “The scorn for those at ease, and the con...
רַבַּת֮ שָֽׂבְעָה ־לָּ֪הּ נַ֫פְשֵׁ֥נוּ הַ לַּ֥עַג...
Psalms 123:1 A SIGH and an upward gaze and a sigh! No period is more appropriate, as that of this psalm, than the early days after the return from exile, when the little community, which had come back...
Following the idea of the ascent of the worshiper to the longed-for house of Jehovah we have in this song an expression of the soul's strong confidence in Jehovah. The soul first affirms confidence as...
PSALM CXXIII. (NISI QUIA DOMINUS.) The Church giveth glory to God for her deliverance from the hands of her enemies....
REFLECTIONS Oh! for faith to be looking unto Jesus as those look to the world, who live upon its smiles. My soul! hadst thou but half the concern to please thy heavenly Master, as faithful servants of...
Reader! it is lovely not only to have our eyes directed unto Jesus, but waiting upon Jesus; not only to give in our petition to the heavenly court; but to hang about the door until the king send out a...
The series then returns (Psalms 123) to their sorrows and resource. Blessing is not fully come; but Jehovah is looked to in the heavens, but as the God of Israel; the remnant say "our God" now. But th...
OUR SOUL IS EXCEEDINGLY FILLED WITH THE SCORNING OF THOSE THAT ARE AT EASE,.... That are in easy and affluent circumstances; abound in the things of this world, and have more than heart can wish; have...
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud. Ver. 4. _Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease_]...
_Have mercy upon us, O Lord_ O be gracious unto us, and in much mercy help and save us; _for we are exceedingly filled with contempt _ Loaded with opprobrious words and injuries. _Our soul is exceedin...
TRUST IN THE LORD IN THE MIDST OF ANGUISH. A song of degrees, setting forth the psalmist's earnest prayer for mercy on account of the distress which has beset him....
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, the enemies who believe themselves. to be secure, AND WITH THE CONTEMPT OF THE PROUD, despots who sought to oppress them in...
Psalms 123:4 soul H5315 exceedingly H7227 filled H7646 (H8804) scorn H3933 ease H7600 contempt H937 proud H3238 ...
Psalms 123:1. _Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens._ Our eyes are far too apt to look below, or to look within, or to look around, but it is wisdom on our part to look...
CONTENTS: Expectation of mercy from God in the day of contempt. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: When man's eyes are toward God, he will always see God's mercy coming toward him. He who dwells...
REFLECTIONS. This psalm teaches us that when the church is in trouble and contempt from proud, wicked, and unbelieving men, the ministers and people of God must associate for counsel and prayer; and a...
_Unto Thee lift I up mine eyes._ THE PRAYER OF THE EYES The prayer of the eyes. Have you never seen it in the eyes of patient poverty, of distress, of oppression, of the sick child? This prayer recog...
_Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorning of those that are at ease._ MAN DISREGARDING MAN I. Man’s disregard for man explains the social sorrows of the world. Were all men lovingly interest...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 123:1. This is a community lament, as the references to “we” and “us” show. In this Song of Solomon 1:1 of Ascents (see note
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 123:3 The wait for mercy (v. Psalms 123:2) becomes a prayer, HAVE MERCY UPON US. The mercy desired is relief from those who show...
INTRODUCTION Since the time when it was produced by its now unknown author, when was not this hymn of hope a favourite with God’s people? The pensive individual might use this form of meditation and p...
EXPOSITION PSALMS 123:1 UNTO THEE LIFT I UP MINE EYES (comp. Psalms 121:1, where the psalmist "lifted up his eyes" to God's dwelling-place). Now the expression is bolder. The eyes are lifted up to Go...
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of a servant look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so...
1 Corinthians 4:13; Acts 17:21; Acts 17:32; Acts 26:24; Jeremiah 48: