Psalms 123:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,

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  • Luke 18:11-13 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess. 13 `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'
  • Neh 4:2-4 : 2 and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What `are' the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!' 3 And Tobiah the Ammonite `is' by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building -- if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.' 4 Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;
  • Ps 4:1 : 1 To the Overseer with Stringed Instruments. -- A Psalm of David. In my calling answer Thou me, O God of my righteousness. In adversity Thou gavest enlargement to me; Favour me, and hear my prayer.
  • Ps 44:13-16 : 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders. 14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples. 15 All the day my confusion `is' before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me. 16 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me, 2 Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many `are' fighting against me, O most High,
  • Ps 57:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave. Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.
  • Ps 69:13-16 : 13 And I -- my prayer `is' to Thee, O Jehovah, A time of good pleasure, O God, In the abundance of Thy kindness, Answer me in the truth of Thy salvation. 14 Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters. 15 Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Answer me, O Jehovah, for good `is' Thy kindness, According to the abundance Of Thy mercies turn Thou unto me,
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples, 51 Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

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  • 4Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

  • Ps 123:1-2
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    1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens.

    2Lo, as eyes of men-servants `Are' unto the hand of their masters, As eyes of a maid-servant `Are' unto the hand of her mistress, So `are' our eyes unto Jehovah our God, Till that He doth favour us.

  • 1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

  • 45Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

  • 22Let Thy kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, As we have waited for Thee!

  • Jer 14:20-21
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    20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

    21Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

  • 8Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

  • 2O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

  • 9Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

  • 3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

  • 4We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

  • 16Turn Thou unto me, and favour me, For lonely and afflicted `am' I.

  • Dan 9:7-9
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    7`To Thee, O Lord, `is' the righteousness, and to us the shame 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, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee.

    8`O Lord, to us `is' the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.

    9`To the Lord our God `are' the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,

  • 22The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.

  • Dan 9:13-16
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    13as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth.

    14And Jehovah doth watch for the evil, and bringeth it upon us, for righteous `is' Jehovah our God concerning all His works that He hath done, and we have not hearkened to His voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth Thy people from the land of Egypt by a strong hand, and dost make for Thee a name as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

    16`O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people `are' for a reproach to all our neighbours;

  • 7Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

  • 13Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

  • 25For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.

  • 22Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.

  • Lam 3:42-43
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    42We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven.

    43Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.

  • 32`And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

  • Ps 90:13-14
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    13Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

    14Satisfy us at morn `with' Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

  • 5Gracious `is' Jehovah, and righteous, Yea, our God `is' merciful,

  • 5Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David, in the coming inn unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

  • 23Who in our lowliness hath remembered us, For to the age `is' His kindness.

  • 7`From the days of our fathers we `are' in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as `at' this day.

  • 13`And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this),

  • 9Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people `are' we all.

  • 11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • 11All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

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    2Favour me, O Jehovah, for I `am' weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

  • 18`Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that `are' many.

  • 12For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions `are' with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.

  • 3Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

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

  • 22For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?

  • 26Help me, O Jehovah my God, Save me, according to Thy kindness.

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    72%

    36`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

    37and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.

  • 7I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.