Psalm

Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn

A song of ascents.[a]

123 
I lift up my eyes to you,

the one enthroned[b] in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of servants

look to the hand of their master,[c]

as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes look to Yahweh our God,

until he is gracious to us.

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,

for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.

For long enough our soul has had its fill of

the derision of the self-confident,

the contempt of the arrogant.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 123:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 123:1 Or “the one who dwells”
  3. Psalm 123:2 Hebrew “masters”