Psalms 123

1 A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

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

2 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.

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.

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

Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri, quia multum repleti sumus despectione;

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

quia multum repleta est anima nostra opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.]