Psalmorum 123

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

A song of ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, you who are enthroned 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.

See, as the eyes of servants look to their master's hand, as the eyes of a maid look to her mistress's hand, so our eyes look to Yahweh our God until he has mercy on us.

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

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we are filled with humiliation.

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

We are more than full of the scoffing of the insolent and with the contempt of the proud.