Psalms 123; Psalms 124; Psalms 125

1 I raise my eyes to you— you who rule heaven.

2 Just as the eyes of servants attend to their masters' hand, just as the eyes of a female servant attends to her mistress' hand— that's how our eyes attend to the LORD our God until he has mercy on us.

3 Have mercy on us, LORD! Have mercy because we've had more than enough shame.

4 We've had more than enough mockery from the self-confident, more than enough shame from the proud.

1 If the LORD hadn't been for us— let Israel now repeat!—

2 if the LORD hadn't been for us, when those people attacked us

3 then they would have swallowed us up whole with their rage burning against us!

4 Then the waters would have drowned us; the torrent would have come over our necks;

5 then the raging waters would have come over our necks!

6 Bless the LORD because he didn't hand us over like food for our enemies' teeth!

7 We escaped like a bird from the hunters' trap; the trap was broken so we escaped!

8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.

1 The people who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion: never shaken, lasting forever.

2 Mountains surround Jerusalem. That's how the LORD surrounds his people from now until forever from now!

3 The wicked rod won't remain in the land given to the righteous so that they don't use their hands to do anything wrong.

4 LORD, do good to people who are good, to people whose hearts are right.

5 But as for those people who turn to their own twisted ways— may the LORD march them off with other evildoers! Peace be on Israel!