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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.
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.
Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,
for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.
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”

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.