Psalms 123

1 [A Song of Ascents.] To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

2 Look, 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.

Behold as the eyes of the servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.

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

Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.

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

For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.