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, you who sit 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 look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

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

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

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

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.