Psalm 123:3
Strong's Lexicon
Have mercy on us,
חָנֵּ֣נוּ (ḥān·nê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2603: 1) to be gracious, show favour, pity 1a) (Qal) to show favour, be gracious 1b) (Niphal) to be pitied 1c) (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious 1d) (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on 1e) (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration 1f) (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour 2) to be loathsome

O LORD,
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: Jehovah = 'the existing One' 1) the proper name of the one true God 1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of H0136

have mercy,
חָנֵּ֑נוּ (ḥān·nê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2603: 1) to be gracious, show favour, pity 1a) (Qal) to show favour, be gracious 1b) (Niphal) to be pitied 1c) (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious 1d) (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on 1e) (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration 1f) (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour 2) to be loathsome

for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since 1a) that 1a1) yea, indeed 1b) when (of time) 1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force) 1c) because, since (causal connection) 1d) but (after negative) 1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if 1f) but rather, but 1g) except that 1h) only, nevertheless 1i) surely 1j) that is 1k) but if 1l) for though 1m) forasmuch as, for therefore

we have endured
שָׂבַ֥עְנוּ (śā·ḇa‘·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7646: 1) to be satisfied, be sated, be fulfilled, be surfeited 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be sated (with food) 1a2) to be sated, be satisfied with, be fulfilled, be filled, have one's fill of (have desire satisfied) 1a3) to have in excess, be surfeited, be surfeited with 1a3a) to be weary of (fig) 1b) (Piel) to satisfy 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to satisfy 1c2) to enrich 1c3) to sate, glut (with the undesired)

much
רַ֝֗ב (raḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7227: adj 1) much, many, great 1a) much 1b) many 1c) abounding in 1d) more numerous than 1e) abundant, enough 1f) great 1g) strong 1h) greater than adv 1i) much, exceedingly n m 2) captain, chief

contempt.
בֽוּז׃ (ḇūz)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 937: 1) contempt 1a) springing from evil 1b) springing from prosperity 1c) springing from judgment

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

Young's Literal Translation
Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Show us favor, LORD , show us favor, for we’ve had more than enough contempt.

New American Standard Bible
Be gracious to us, O LORD, be gracious to us, For we are greatly filled with contempt.

King James Bible
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.

New Living Translation
Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had our fill of contempt.

English Standard Version
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

New American Standard Bible
Be gracious to us, O LORD, be gracious to us, For we are greatly filled with contempt.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Show us favor, LORD, show us favor, for we've had more than enough contempt.

International Standard Version
Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

NET Bible
Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

American Standard Version
Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,
















Cross References
Nehemiah 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:

Psalm 4:1
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Psalm 51:1
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 119:22
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

Ezekiel 36:6
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 123:1
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Psalm 122:9
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Psalm 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124:1
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
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