Psalms

A Song of Ascents.

¹I lift up my eyes to you,

you who sit in the heavens.

²Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,

as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes look to the LORD, our God,

until he has mercy on us.

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us,

for we have endured much contempt.

⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,

with the contempt of the proud.