Psalm 123

Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn

123A song of ascents.^a

¹I lift up my eyes to you,

the one enthroned^b in the heavens.

²Behold, as the eyes of servants

look to the hand of their master,^c

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.

³Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,

for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.

⁴For long enough our soul has had its fill of

the derision of the self-confident,

the contempt of the arrogant.