Psalms 123:3

Yahweh, be very merciful [DOU] to us because our enemies have acted very contemptuously toward us.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Like servants ask [IDM] their masters for what they need and like maids ask t their mistresses for what they need, we ask you, Yahweh our God, for what we need, and we ask you to be merciful to us.

4Rich people have made fun of us for a long time, and proud people who have ◄oppressed/acted cruelly toward► us have acted toward us as though we were worthless.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 6:16While they were carrying the sacred chest into the city, David’s wife Michal, who was Saul’s daughter, looked out the window of her house. She saw King David leaping and dancing to honor Yahweh. So she was disgusted with him.

Nehemiah 4:2While his colleagues and officials of the army troops who had come from Samaria were listening, he said, “What do these feeble/pathetic Jews think they are doing? Do they think that if they offer enough/many sacrifices, their gods will hear them and enable them to finish building the wall in one day? The stones that were in the wall previously have been weakened by being burned in a fire. Those stones that they are pulling out of the rubbish/garbage heaps—do they think that they can make them strong again?” [RHQ]

Psalms 4:1God, answer me when I pray to you. You are the one who vindicates me; Rescue me from things that distress me. Act mercifully toward me, and listen to me while I pray.

Psalms 44:14They make jokes using the name of our country, they shake their heads to indicate that they despise us.

Psalms 57:1God, be merciful to me! Act mercifully toward me because I come to you to protect me. I ask you to protect me like little birds are protected under their mother’s wings [MET] until the storm/danger is ended.

Psalms 89:50Yahweh, do not forget that people insult me! ◄Heathen people/People who do not know you► curse me!

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 →

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