Psalms 124:3
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
In Context
4For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul being angry against Jonathan said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion and to the confusion of thy shameless mother?
Esther 3:12And the king's scribes were called in the first month Nisan, on the thirteenth day of the same month: and they wrote, as Aman had commanded, to all the king's lieutenants, and to the judges of the provinces, and of divers nations, as every nation could read, and hear according to their different languages, in the name of king Assuerus: and the letters, sealed with his ring,
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts : It is well, it is well, to our mind : neither let them say : We have swallowed him up.
Psalms 57:3I will cry to God the most High; to God who hath done good to me.
Psalms 76:10When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
Psalms 83:5They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 124:2-6
The Security of God's People. 1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The people of God, being here called upon to praise God for their deliverance, are to take notice, I. Of the malice of men, by which they… Read the whole commentary →