Psalms 123:1

Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn

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A song of ascents.

1 I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned in the heavens.

Psalms 123:1 In-Context

1 I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned in the heavens.
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 Yahweh our God, until he is gracious to us.
3 Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.
4 For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of [the] arrogant.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  • [b]. Or "the one who dwells"
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