Psalms 123:3-4

123:3 Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor!

For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. ¹ 

123:4 We have had our fill ² 

of the taunts of the self-assured,

of the contempt of the proud.

Jeremiah 48:27

48:27 For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel?

Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, ³ 

that you shook your head in contempt ⁴ 

every time you talked about them? ⁵ 

[123:3]  ¹ tn Heb “for greatly we are filled [with] humiliation.”

[123:4]  ² tn Heb “greatly our soul is full to it.”

[48:27]  ³ tn Heb “were they caught among thieves?”

[48:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “that you shook yourself.” But see the same verb in 18:16 in the active voice with the object “head” in a very similar context of contempt or derision.

[48:27]  ⁵ tc The reading here presupposes the emendation of דְבָרֶיךָ (dÿvarekha, “your words”) to דַבֶּרְךָ (dabberkha, “your speaking”), suggested by BHS (cf. fn c) on the basis of one of the Greek versions (Symmachus). For the idiom cf. BDB 191 s.v. דַּי 2.c.α.