Psalmorum 123

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

A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

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.

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

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

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

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

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.