'Us' in the Bible

We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.

O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,For we have been brought very low.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;Rescue us, forgive us our sins for Your name’s sake.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your powerAnd come to save us!

Restore us, O God;Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.

Restore us, O God of hosts;And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

Then we shall not turn back from You;Revive us and we will call on Your name.

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Who said, “Let us possess for ourselvesThe pastures of God.”

Restore us, O God of our salvation,And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.

Will You be angry with us forever?Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

Will You not revive us and bring us to life again,That Your people may rejoice in You?

Show us Your lovingkindness, O Lord,And grant us Your salvation.

So teach us to number our days,That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older],That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,And the years we have suffered evil.

And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us;Confirm for us the work of our hands—Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

O come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord;Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving;Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.

O come, let us worship and bow down,Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God;It is He who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His].We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins [as we deserve],Nor rewarded us [with punishment] according to our wickedness.

As far as the east is from the west,So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Save us, O Lord our God,And gather us from among the nations,That we may give thanks to Your holy nameAnd glory in praising You.

That Your beloved [ones] may be rescued,Save with Your right hand, and answer me!

Have You not rejected us, O God?And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?

Give us help against the adversary,For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].

Not to us, O Lord, not to us,But to Your name give gloryBecause of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth and faithfulness.

The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless,He will bless the house of Israel;He will bless the house of Aaron.

For His lovingkindness prevails over us [and we triumph and overcome through Him],And the truth of the Lord endures forever.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

O Lord, save now, we beseech You;O Lord, we beseech You, send now prosperity and give us success!

The Lord is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy].Bind the festival sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar.

You have ordained Your precepts,That we should follow them with [careful] diligence.

I was glad when they said to me,“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,And as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,So our eyes look to the Lord our God,Until He is gracious and favorable toward us.

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,For we are greatly filled with contempt.

“If it had not been the Lord who was on our sideWhen men rose up against us,

Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,When their wrath was kindled against us;

Then the waters would have engulfed us,The torrent would have swept over our soul;

Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

Blessed be the Lord,Who has not given us as prey to be torn by their teeth.

The Lord has done great things for us;We are glad!

The Lord is righteous;He has cut in two the [thick] cords of the wicked [which enslaved the people of Israel].

If You, Lord, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly,O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]?

Let us go into His tabernacle;Let us worship at His footstool.

Blessed be the Lord from Zion,Who dwells [with us] at Jerusalem.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Who [faithfully] remembered us in our lowly condition,For His lovingkindness endures forever;

And has rescued us from our enemies,For His lovingkindness endures forever;

For there they who took us captive demanded of us a song with words,And our tormentors [who made a mockery of us demanded] amusement, saying,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator,How blessed will be the oneWho repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.

Stretch out Your hand from above;Set me free and rescue me from great waters,Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]

If they say, “Come with us;Let us lie in wait to shed blood,Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead),Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];

Throw in your lot with us [they insist];We will all have one money bag [in common],”

For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord,And He carefully watches all of his paths [all of his comings and goings].

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;Let us console and delight ourselves with love.

Is there anything of which it can be said,“See this, it is new”?It has already existed for [the vast] ages [of time recorded or unrecorded]Which were before us.

(The Chorus)“Catch the foxes for us,The little foxes that spoil and ruin the vineyards [of love],While our vineyards are in blossom.”

“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away,Return quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelleOr a young stag on the mountains of Bether [which separate us].” Cross references: Song of Solomon 2:6 : Deut 33:27; Matt 28:20 Song of Solomon 2:8 : John 10:27 Song of Solomon 2:16 : Matt 10:32; Acts 4:12 end of crossrefs

(The Chorus)“What is your beloved more than another beloved,O most beautiful among women?What is your beloved more than another beloved,That you should so command us to take an oath?”

“Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country,Let us spend the night in the villages.

“Let us go out early to the vineyards;Let us see whether the vine has buddedAnd its blossoms have opened,And whether the pomegranates have flowered.There I will give you my love.

If the Lord of hostsHad not left us a few survivors,We would be like Sodom,We would be like Gomorrah.

“Come now, and let us reason together,”Says the Lord.“Though your sins are like scarlet,They shall be as white as snow;Though they are red like crimson,They shall be like wool.

And many peoples shall come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,To the house (temple) of the God of Jacob;That He may teach us His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For the law will go out from ZionAnd the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

And in that day seven women will take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own food and wear [and provide] our own clothes; only let us be called by your name; take away our shame [of being unmarried].”

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it; and let us breach its wall and tear it apart [each of us taking a portion] and set up the son of Tabeel over it as its [puppet] king,”

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Listen carefully, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel (God with us).

“Then it will sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and pass through [the hills],Reaching even to the neck [of which Jerusalem is the head],And its outstretched wings (the armies of Assyria) will fill the width of Your land, O Immanuel.

“Take counsel together [against Judah], but it will come to nothing;Speak the word, but it will not stand,For God is with us (Immanuel).”

For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given;And the government shall be upon His shoulder,And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

“Even the cypress trees rejoice over you [kings of Babylon], even the cedars of Lebanon, saying,‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’

“All of them will respond [tauntingly] and say to you,‘You have become as weak as we are.You have become like us.

[Say to the ruler] “Give us advice, make a decision [for Moab, king of Judah];Cast your shadow [over us] like night in the midst of noon;Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive [to his pursuer].

At evening time, now look, sudden terror!Before morning the Assyrians are no more.This is the portion (fate) of those who plunder us,And the lot of those who pillage us.

So the inhabitants of this coastland [the Israelites and their neighbors] will say in that day, ‘Look what has happened to those in whom we hoped and trusted and to whom we fled for help to be spared from the king of Assyria! But we, how will we escape [captivity and exile]?’”

Instead, there is joy and jubilation,Killing of oxen and slaughtering of sheep,Eating meat and drinking wine, saying,“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

It will be said in that day,“Indeed, this is our God for whom we have waited that He would save us.This is the Lord for whom we have waited;Let us shout for joy and rejoice in His salvation.”

Lord, You will establish peace for us,Since You have also performed for us all that we have done.

O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us;But through You alone we confess Your name.

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,And with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have made an agreement,When the overwhelming scourge passes by, it will not reach us,For we have made lies our refuge and we have concealed ourselves in deception.”

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who [try to] deeply hide their plans from the Lord,Whose deeds are done in a dark place,And who say, “Who sees us?” or “Who knows us?”

Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions from God”;And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right!Speak to us pleasant things and smooth words,Prophesy [deceitful] illusions [that we will enjoy].

“Get out of the [true] way, turn aside from the path [of God],Stop bothering us with the Holy One of Israel.”

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,And the fertile field is valued as a forest.

O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited [expectantly] for You.Be the arm of Your servants every morning [that is, their strength and their defense],Our salvation also in the time of trouble.

The sinners in Zion are terrified;Trembling has seized the godless.[They cry] “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?Who among us can live with everlasting burning?”

But there the mighty and magnificent Lord will be for usA place of broad rivers and streams,Where no oar-driven boat will go,And on which no mighty and stately ship will pass.

For the Lord is our Judge,The Lord is our Ruler,The Lord is our King;He will save us.

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please, speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it; and do not speak to us in Judean (Hebrew) in the hearing of the people who are [stationed] on the wall.”

nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will most certainly rescue us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations [ever] rescued his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know and fully realize that You alone, Lord, are God.”

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and faithfulness [to God’s promises to us] in my days.”

“Listen to Me in silence, you islands and coastlands,And let the nations gain their strength;Let them come near, then let them speak;Let us come together for judgment [and decide the issue between us concerning the enemy from the east].

Let them bring forward [their evidence] and tell us what is going to happen.Regarding the former events, tell what they were,That we may consider them and know their outcome;Or announce to us the things that are going to come.