Psalmorum 123

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

A Song of the Ascents. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens.

2 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.

Lo, as eyes of men-servants [Are] unto the hand of their masters, As eyes of a maid-servant [Are] unto the hand of her mistress, So [are] our eyes unto Jehovah our God, Till that He doth favour us.

3 Miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri: quia multum repleti sumus despectione:

Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,

4 Quia multum repleta est anima nostra: opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.

Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!