Psalms 123

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

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

2 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.

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

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

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

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