Have mercy
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 56:1
[For the choir director: according to "A Silent Dove Far Away." A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.] Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me; he fights and oppresses me all day long.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 56:2
My adversaries trample me all day, for many arrogantly fight against me.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 57:1
[For the choir director: "Do Not Destroy." A Davidic Miktam. When he fled before Saul into the cave.] Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me, for I take refuge in You. I will seek refuge in the shadow of Your wings until danger passes.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 69:13-16
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But as for me, LORD, my prayer to You is for a time of favor. In Your abundant, faithful love, God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
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Rescue me from the miry mud; don't let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.
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Don't let the floodwaters sweep over me or the deep swallow me up; don't let the Pit close its mouth over me.
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Answer me, LORD, for Your faithful love is good; in keeping with Your great compassion, turn to me.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_42 18:11-13
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The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: 'God, I thank You that I'm not like other people-- greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.'
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"But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, 'God, turn Your wrath from me-- a sinner!'
for we are
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 44:13-16
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You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
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You make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
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My disgrace is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face,
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because of the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy and avenger.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 89:50
Remember, Lord, the ridicule against Your servants-- in my heart I carry [abuse] from all the peoples--
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 89:51
how Your enemies have ridiculed, LORD, how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 4:2-4
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before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, "What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore [it] by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?"
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Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, "Indeed, even if a fox climbed up what they are building, he would break down their stone wall!"
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Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like one people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn't value Him.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_42 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_42 23:35
The people stood watching, and even the leaders kept scoffing: "He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is God's Messiah, the Chosen One!"