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From the floor of a small stone courtyard looking straight up: rough stone walls and flat roof edges frame a huge plain sky, a clay water jar at the very bottom.

Song of ascents

Psalm 123

When people have looked down on you for a long time, there is one direction left to look.

4 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–41Book IDavid's prayers: 'The LORD is my shepherd'
  2. 42–72Book II'As the deer pants'; the throne under pressure
  3. 73–89Book IIIAsaph and Korah: the kingdom falls
  4. 90–106Book IVBack to Moses: the LORD reigns
  5. 107–150Book VSongs of ascents, and the last HallelujahPsalm 123

I Lift Up My Eyes to You

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to You,

the One enthroned in heaven.

Psalm 123:1

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A young maidservant in a plain wool robe and head covering stands by a doorway with a jar on her hip, her eyes fixed on someone out of frame, waiting.

As the eyes of servants

look to the hand of their master,

as the eyes of a maidservant

look to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes are on the LORD our God

until He shows us mercy.

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy,

for we have endured much contempt.

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant,

much contempt from the proud.

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Psalm 123

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A verse to carry with you

I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

Psalm 123:1

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