Psalms 123:3
Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
In Context
2Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:16And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart.
Nehemiah 4:2And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?
Psalms 4:1Unto the end, in verses. A psalm of David.
Psalms 44:14Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 57:1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave
Psalms 89:50Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 123:2-4
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord , have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. We have… Read the whole commentary →