Psa 123 | LEB | STEP | A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned in the heavens.

Psalms 123

Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn

A song of ascents. ^{▼▼The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm}

1 I lift up my eyes to you,
the one enthroned ^{▼▼Or “the one who dwells”} in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master, ^{▼▼Hebrew “masters”}
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.
3 Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,
for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.
4 For long enough our soul has had its fill of
the derision of the self-confident,
the contempt of the arrogant.

Psalms 123

Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn

A song of ascents. ▼▼The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm

A song of ascents. ^{▼▼The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm}