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1 Lord, I look upward to you, you who live in heaven.
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To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
2 Slaves depend on their masters, and a female servant depends on her mistress. In the same way, we depend on the Lord our God; we wait for him to show us 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 Have mercy on us, Lord. Have mercy on us, because we have been insulted.
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Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.
4 We have suffered many insults from lazy people and much cruelty from the proud. A song for going up to worship. Of David.
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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.