Psalmorum 123

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

A Song of Ascents. Unto thee, have I lifted up mine eyes, O thou who art enthroned 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 the eyes of men-servants are unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid-servant, unto the hand of her mistress, so, are our eyes, unto Yahweh our God, until that he show us favour.

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

Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt:

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

Exceeding sated therewith, is our soul, —The scorn of the careless, The contempt of the proud.