Psalm 123
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Psalms 123— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, which is the key every lexicon and concordance uses (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets name a word that does a grammatical job rather than carrying a meaning, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
1I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
Aramaic Targum to Psalms 123:1
The song that is said on the ascents from the abyss. Before You I lift my eyes — You who are seated on a glorious throne in heaven.
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2As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
Aramaic Targum to Psalms 123:2
Behold, just as slaves' eyes gaze at the leftovers from their owners' hands, and just as maids' eyes gaze at the leftovers from their mistresses' hands, so too our eyes gaze at before Adonai our God, until when He has mercy on us.
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3Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
4We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
Rashi on Psalms 123:4
the ridicule of the complacent [With] the ridicule of the complacent heathens we are sated.
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