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Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
⛓ Read Psalm 123 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Matt 9:27-31 ?
'Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy.' The blind men's cry 'Have mercy on us' echoes the standard psalmic appeal for divine mercy, now addressed to the Son of David.
Low confidenceMatt 20:29-34 ?
'Have mercy on us (eleēson hēmas), O LORD, have mercy on us' — the doubled cry of the blind (20:30-31) reuses the stock psalmic plea for mercy; idiomatic rather than a specific citation.
Low confidence