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1 I lift my eyes to you, O God, enthroned in heaven.
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I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.
2 We keep looking to the LORD our God for his mercy, just as servants keep their eyes on their master, as a slave girl watches her mistress for the slightest signal.
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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 Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had our fill of 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 had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant.
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We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.
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