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.