Revised Standard Version RSV
Good News Translation GNT
1 A Song of Ascents. To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!
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Lord, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he have mercy upon us.
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As a servant depends on his master, as a maid depends on her mistress, so we will keep looking to you, O Lord our God, until you have mercy on us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.
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Be merciful to us, Lord, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.
4 Too long our soul has been sated with the scorn of those who are at ease, the contempt of the proud.
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We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.