Psalm 123:3

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Summary

Psalm 123:3

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Have mercy

For we are

General references

Proverbs 18:3

Lamentations 3:14

Ezekiel 36:6

Bible References

Have mercy

Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by.

But as for me, my prayer [is] to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.

The Pharisee stood [and] prayed these [things] with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people--swindlers, unrighteous [people], adulterers, or even like this tax collector!

For we are

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, [how] I bear in my bosom [the taunts of] all [the] many peoples,

Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore [these things] for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?"

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these [things], and they ridiculed him.

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

General references

With the coming of wickedness comes contempt also, and with dishonor, disgrace.

I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.

Therefore prophesy against the land of Israel, and you must say to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I spoke in my passion and in my anger [the] insult of [the] peoples you have endured."