Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
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Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
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Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
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Nehemiah 4:2
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
Nehemiah 4:4
“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
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Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
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Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
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Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
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Psalms 125:1
Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
Psalms 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
Psalms 125:3
For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous, so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
Psalms 125:4
Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
Psalms 125:5
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
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Psalms 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms 127:4
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
Psalms 127:5
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
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Psalms 131:1
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
Psalms 131:2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Psalms 131:3
Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.
Psalms 133:1
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
Psalms 133:2
It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard, that came down on the edge of his robes,
Psalms 133:3
like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
Psalms 134:1
Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
Psalms 134:3
May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.
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