Psalmorum 123

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

“A song of the degrees.” Unto thee do I lift up my eyes, O thou that dwellest 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.

Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress: thus are our eyes directed unto the Lord our God, until he be gracious unto us.

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

Be gracious unto us, O Lord! be gracious unto us; for we are overburdened with contempt.

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

Our soul is overburdened with the scorn of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud oppressors.