Psalmorum 123

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

A Song of the going up. To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

2 Ecce sicut oculi servorum, in manibus dominorum suorum, Sicut oculi ancillae in manibus dominae suae: ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum donec misereatur nostri.

See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.

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

Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

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

For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.