The Message Bible MSG
English Standard Version ESV
1 I look to you, heaven-dwelling God, look up to you for help.
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To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
2 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.
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Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.
3 Mercy, God, mercy! We've been kicked around long enough,
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Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.
4 Kicked in the teeth by complacent rich men, kicked when we're down by arrogant brutes.
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Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.