Psalm 123

The Eyes of a Servant

¹To you I lift up my eyes,

to you who are seated in heaven.

²Indeed, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he shows us his grace.

³Show grace to us, O Lord .

Show grace to us,

for we have had our fill of contempt.

⁴Our souls have had their fill of the scorn of the smug

and of the contempt of the arrogant.