Psalms 123

Psalm 123

Supplication for Mercy

1To you I lift up my eyes,[#Ps 2.4; 11.4; 121.1; 141.8]

O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

2As the eyes of servants[#Ps 25.15; Prov 27.18]

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.

3Have mercy upon us, O Lord , have mercy upon us,[#Ps 4.1; 51.1]

for we have had more than enough of contempt.

4Our soul has had more than its fill[#Ps 79.4]

of the scorn of those who are at ease,

of the contempt of the proud.

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