The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
1 I look to you, heaven-dwelling God, look up to you for help.
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Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest 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 unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have 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 are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4 Kicked in the teeth by complacent rich men, kicked when we're down by arrogant brutes.
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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.