The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 123 -

I lift up my eyes to you

Yahweh, I look up toward you, up to heaven, from where you rule.

As servants ask their masters for what they need and as maids ask their mistresses for what they need, we ask you, Yahweh our God, for what we need, until you act mercifully toward us.

Yahweh, act very mercifully toward us because our enemies have acted very contemptuously toward us.

Arrogant people have made fun of us for a long time, and proud people have oppressed us and have acted as though we were worthless.

I lift up my eyes to you

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.