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The Harvesters. Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Psalm 123

4 verses · Song of Ascents, community lament

I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

The line breaks below follow the poem's own punctuation.

I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

As 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.

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

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