Psalms 123:2
if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us; 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
1If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; 1
3verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: 1
Cross References
Genesis 32:26And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me.
Joshua 9:23And now you⌃ are cursed: there shall not fail of you a slave, or a hewer of wood, or a drawer of water to me and my God.
Joshua 10:6And the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to Joshua into the camp to Galgala, saying, Slack not your hands from your servants: come up quickly to us, and help us, and rescue us; for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us.
2 Chronicles 20:12O Lord our God, will you not judge them? for we have no strength to resist this great multitude that is come against us; and we know not what we shall do to them: but our eyes are toward you.
Psalms 40:1Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. 1
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 →