Psalms 123

In this psalm, a community facing scorn and humiliation turns to God for mercy and help. Using the image of servants watching their master, it expresses complete dependence on God's intervention while emphasizing the burden caused by the mockery of the proud and complacent.

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¹ To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

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 Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

³ Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.