“"For we have been much filled with contempt" [Psalm 123:3]. All that will live piously according to Christ, must needs suffer reproof, [2 Timothy 3:12] must needs be despised by those who do not choose to live piously, all whose happiness is earthly. They are derided who call that happiness which they cannot see with…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 123
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3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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1Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2Behold, 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.
— Psalms 123:3 —
4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.