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Psalms 123:3

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

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  1. Psalms 123:1

    Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

  2. Psalms 123:2

    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. Psalms 123:4

    Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.