Psalm 123

Supplication for Mercy

A Song of Ascents.
¹To you I lift up my eyes,
   O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
²As 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 upon us.

³Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
   for we have had more than enough of contempt.
⁴Our soul has had more than its fill
   of the scorn of those who are at ease,
   of the contempt of the proud.