Psalms 123

1 A Song of Ascents. Unto thee, have I lifted up mine eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens.

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

2 Lo! as the eyes of men-servants are unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid-servant, unto the hand of her mistress, so, are our eyes, unto Yahweh our God, until that he show us favour.

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 Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt:

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

4 Exceeding sated therewith, is our soul, —The scorn of the careless, The contempt of the proud.

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