Psalms 123

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

Canticum graduum. Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in cælis.

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.

Ecce sicut oculi servorum, in manibus dominorum suorum, Sicut oculi ancillæ in manibus dominæ suæ: ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum donec misereatur nostri.

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

Miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri: quia multum repleti sumus despectione:

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

Quia multum repleta est anima nostra: opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.