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Psalms 123
A pilgrim looks up and keeps looking up. The single image driving these four verses is the eyes of a servant fixed on a master's hand, and a maid's on her mistress — watching for the small gesture that signals relief. Prayer here is patience held in a posture.
- 1
I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.
- 2
Behold, 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.
- 3
Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
- 4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
From upward gaze to raw complaint
The waiting turns urgent in the last two verses. The doubled cry "have mercy on us" names the grievance plainly: the singers have had their fill of scorn from "those who are at ease" and the contempt of the proud. The psalm sets the watchful servant's eyes against the comfortable sneer of those who feel no need to look up at all.
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