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, you who sit 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.

Behold, 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 the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

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

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

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

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.