Psalms 123: 1 - 125: 5
| 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. |
| A Song of Ascents. By David. |
| 1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, |
| let Israel now say, |
| 2if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, |
| when men rose up against us; |
| 3then they would have swallowed us up alive, |
| when their wrath was kindled against us; |
| 4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, |
| the stream would have gone over our soul; |
| 5then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. |
| 6Blessed be the LORD, |
| who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. |
| 7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. |
| The snare is broken, and we have escaped. |
| 8Our help is in the LORD’s name, |
| who made heaven and earth. |
| A Song of Ascents. |
| 1Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, |
| which can’t be moved, but remains forever. |
| 2As the mountains surround Jerusalem, |
| so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more. |
| 3For the sceptre of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; |
| so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil. |
| 4Do good, LORD, to those who are good, |
| to those who are upright in their hearts. |
| 5But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, |
| The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. |
| Peace be on Israel. |
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