Chapter 123

A Song of Ascents.

¹To you I do lift up my eyes,

You who sit in the heavens.

²Behold, 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 Yahweh, our God,

Until he has mercy on us.

³Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us,

For we have endured much contempt.

⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,

With the contempt of the proud.