Psalms 123:3

World English Bible (2000)

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

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  • Luke 18:11-13 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
  • Neh 4:2-4 : 2 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?" 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall." 4 "Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
  • Ps 4:1 : 1 Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
  • Ps 44:13-16 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. 14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face, 16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. 2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
  • Ps 57:1 : 1 Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
  • Ps 69:13-16 : 13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me. 16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

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  • 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • Ps 123:1-2
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    1 To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

    2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

  • 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • 45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • 22 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you. By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

  • Jer 14:20-21
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    20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

    21 Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.

  • 8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

  • 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • 16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

  • Dan 9:7-9
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    7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

    8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

    9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

  • 22 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.

  • Dan 9:13-16
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    13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

    14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

    15 Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

    16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

  • 7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.

  • 13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

  • 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • 22 Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

  • Lam 3:42-43
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    42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

    43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

  • 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

  • Ps 90:13-14
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    13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

    14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

  • 5 Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

  • 5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

  • 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

  • 23 Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

  • 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • 13 "After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

  • 9 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

  • 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

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    2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

  • 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

  • 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

  • 4 "Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • 22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

  • 26 Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    36 "Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

    37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.