The Bible in Basic English BBE
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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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I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.
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 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, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
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Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.
4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
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We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.
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