Martin Luther on Psalms 123:3

Verse. 3. Haue mercy vpon vs O Lord, haue mercy vpon vs, for we haue suffered too much contempt.

Here may we see that the godly doe not onely feele their owne crosse, but the affliction of other also is to them a great crosse: and as they suffer togither, so they cry vnto God for helpe and succour as well for other as for them selues. Yea the common calamitie of their brethren is to them a greater crosse then their owne.

Haue mercy vpon vs, &c. This repetition as it doth declare a great vehemencie and feruentnes of spirite in the afflicted crying vnto God for helpe and deliuerance: so it sheweth their affliction and calamitie to be exceeding greeuous. For we haue suffered too much contempt. He sayd before that the godly being brought to extreme miserie by the tyranny and oppression of the wicked, did lift vp their eyes to God for helpe and succour. Nowe he sheweth also what despite and reproch they suffred of the proud and scornfull. Whereby it appeareth that the vngodly sought, not only with crueltie and oppression, but also with despite, contempt and ignominy to tread, as it were, vnder foote the children of God. He saith not onely: we suffer contempt, but we are filled with contempt and ignominie, vsing a similitude taken of a vessell, which is filled so full that it can conteine no more. Thus the children of God do not burst out at the first into these gronings and grieuous complaints when so euer they are contemned and despised, but patiently suffer in hope that God will at the length ease their miserye, vntill they be filled with all maner of despite contempt, and scorning of the wicked, whereby they are compelled to cry vnto God doubling their complaint, as followeth in the next verse.