Psalms 123

1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

A song of ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, you who are enthroned in the heavens.

2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

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

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

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we are filled with humiliation.

4 We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

We are more than full of the scoffing of the insolent and with the contempt of the proud.