The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
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Lord, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.
2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.
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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.
3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
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Be merciful to us, Lord, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.
4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
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We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.