¹A song of ascents:

I raise my eyes to you,

whose throne is in heaven.

²As 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.

³Have mercy on us, Adonai , have mercy;

for we have had our fill of contempt,

⁴more than our fill of scorn from the complacent

and contempt from the arrogant.