The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Message Bible MSG
1 A song of ascents: I raise my eyes to you, whose throne is in heaven.
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I look to you, heaven-dwelling God, look up to you for help.
2 As a servant looks to the hand of his master, or a slave-girl to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes turn to ADONAI our God, until he has mercy on us.
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Like servants, alert to their master's commands, like a maiden attending her lady, We're watching and waiting, holding our breath, awaiting your word of mercy.
3 Have mercy on us, ADONAI, have mercy; for we have had our fill of contempt,
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Mercy, God, mercy! We've been kicked around long enough,
4 more than our fill of scorn from the complacent and contempt from the arrogant.
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Kicked in the teeth by complacent rich men, kicked when we're down by arrogant brutes.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.