Psalmorum 123

1 Canticum graduum. Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in cælis.

A song of ascents. I Lift up my eyes to you, who are throned in the heavens.

2 Ecce sicut oculi servorum, in manibus dominorum suorum, Sicut oculi ancillæ in manibus dominæ suæ: ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum donec misereatur nostri.

As the eyes of a servant turn to the hand of his master, or the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so do our eyes turn to the Lord our God, until he is gracious to us.

3 Miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri: quia multum repleti sumus despectione:

Be gracious, be gracious to us, Lord. Scorn enough, and more, have we borne

4 Quia multum repleta est anima nostra: opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.

More than enough have we borne of derision from those at their ease, of scorn from those who are haughty.