Psalms 123
The psalmist looks to God in heaven for mercy, comparing their dependence on Him to a servant's reliance on their master. They express a deep need for God's mercy due to being overwhelmed by contempt and scorn from the proud and those who are at ease. The psalmist asks God to have mercy on them, acknowledging their desperate situation.
1Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.2Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
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