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Psalm 123
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Psalm 123

Supplication for Mercy

A Song of Ascents.

1 To you I lift up my eyes,
    O you who are enthroned in the heavens!(A)
2 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 upon us.(B)

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
    for we have had more than enough of contempt.(C)
4 Our soul has had more than its fill
    of the scorn of those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of the proud.(D)

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Psalm 123
Lexham English Bible

Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn

A song of ascents.[a]

123 I lift up my eyes to you,
the one enthroned[b] in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,[c]
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to Yahweh our God,
until he is gracious to us.
3 Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,
for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.
4 For long enough our soul has had its fill of
the derision of the self-confident,
the contempt of the arrogant.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 123:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 123:1 Or “the one who dwells”
  3. Psalm 123:2 Hebrew “masters”
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