Psalms 123

1 A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. I have lifted up my eyes to You, O dweller in the heavens.

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

2 Behold, as eyes of menservants [Are] to the hand of their masters, As eyes of a maidservant [Are] to the hand of her mistress, So [are] our eyes to our God YHWH, Until He favors us.

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 Favor us, O YHWH, favor us, For we have been greatly filled with contempt,

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

4 Our soul has been greatly filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

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