祈求上帝怜悯

上圣殿朝圣之诗。

123 在天上做王的耶和华啊!
我仰望你。
我们要仰望我们的上帝耶和华,
如同仆人仰望主人、婢女仰望主母,
一直到蒙祂怜悯。
耶和华啊,
求你怜悯我们,求你怜悯我们,
因为我们饱受鄙视。
我们饱受富足人的嘲弄、骄傲人的鄙视。

在屈辱中懇求 神施恩

朝聖之歌(原文作“往上行之歌”)。

123 坐在天上的主啊!

我向你舉目。(本節在《馬索拉文本》包括細字標題)

僕人的眼睛怎樣望著主人的手,

婢女的眼睛怎樣望著主母的手,

我們的眼睛也照樣望著耶和華我們的 神,

直到他向我們施恩。

耶和華啊!求你向我們施恩,求你向我們施恩;

因為我們飽受藐視,到了極點。

我們飽受那些安逸的人的嘲笑,

和驕傲的人的藐視,到了極點。

123 (0) A song of ascents:

(1) I raise my eyes to you,
whose throne is in heaven.
As a servant looks to the hand of his master,
or a slave-girl to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes turn to Adonai our God,
until he has mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, Adonai, have mercy;
for we have had our fill of contempt,
more than our fill of scorn from the complacent
and contempt from the arrogant.

Psalm 123

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to you,
    to you who sit enthroned(A) in heaven.
As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
    as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord(B) our God,
    till he shows us his mercy.

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,
    for we have endured no end of contempt.
We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.