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Psa 123:3 — Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Have mercy		Psa 56:1,2; Psa 57:1; Psa 69:13-16; Luk 18:11-13
for we are		Psa 44:13-16; Psa 89:50,51; Neh 4:2-4; Isa 53:3; Luk 16:14; Luk 23:35

Correlating Passages

Have mercy

	Psa 56:1	[[To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.]] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
	Psa 56:2	Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many that fight against me, O thou most High.
	Psa 57:1	[[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.]] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities be overpast.
	Psa 69:13	But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
	Psa 69:14	Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
	Psa 69:15	Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
	Psa 69:16	Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
	Luk 18:11	The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men [are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
	Luk 18:12	I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
	Luk 18:13	And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

for we are

	Psa 44:13	Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
	Psa 44:14	Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
	Psa 44:15	My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
	Psa 44:16	For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
	Psa 89:50	Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
	Psa 89:51	Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
	Neh 4:2	And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
	Neh 4:3	Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
	Neh 4:4	Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
	Isa 53:3	He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
	Luk 16:14	And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
	Luk 23:35	And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided [him], saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 123:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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