Psalms 123

1 A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. I look up to you, the one who rules from heaven.

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

2 Just as servants look to their master, or a maid looks to her mistress, so we keep our eyes on you, Lord our God, waiting for you to be merciful to us.

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 Please have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy. We've had enough of people's contempt.

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

4 We've had more than enough of the scorn of the proud, and the contempt of the arrogant.

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