Hebrew Names Version HNV
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1 <<A Ma`alot Song.>> To you I do lift up my eyes, You who sit in the heavens.
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I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.
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 the LORD, our God, Until he has 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 Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt.
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Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
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We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.
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