Psalm 123
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Psalm 12316
A song of ascents.17
123:1I look up1 toward you,
the one enthroned2 in heaven.
123:2Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress,3
so my eyes will look to the Lord, our God, until he shows us favor.
123:3Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor!
For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.4
123:4We have had our fill5
of the taunts of the self-assured,
of the contempt of the proud.
Footnotes
- 16 Psalm 123. The psalmist, speaking for God’s people, acknowledges his dependence on God in the midst of a crisis.
- 17 The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120–134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101–150(), .
- 1 Heb “I lift my eyes.”
- 2 Heb “sitting.” The Hebrew verb יָשַׁב (yashav) is here used metonymically of “sitting enthroned” (see Pss 9:7; 29:10; 55:19; 102:12).
- 3 Servants look to their master for food, shelter, and other basic needs.
- 4 Heb “for greatly we are filled [with] humiliation.”
- 5 Heb “greatly our soul is full to it.”
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