²Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.

³Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.

⁴For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

Psalm 123

¹I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

²If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,

³Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

⁴Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

⁵Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

⁶Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 124

¹A gradual canticle.

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth

²In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

³For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

⁴Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.

⁵But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

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