Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 Lord, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.
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I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.
2 As a servant depends on his master, as a maid depends on her mistress, so we will keep looking to you, O Lord our God, until you have mercy on us.
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As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy.
3 Be merciful to us, Lord, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.
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Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.
4 We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors.
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We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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