Servants watch their master's hands while weary pilgrims outside lift their eyes toward the sanctuary

Psalm 123

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Psalm 123 turns upward with the focused attention of servants watching a master's hand. A weary community saturated with ridicule and proud contempt waits humbly, attentively, and persistently for needed mercy.
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1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. I have lifted up my eyes to You, || O dweller in the heavens.
2Behold, as eyes of menservants || [Are] to the hand of their masters, || As eyes of a maidservant || [Are] to the hand of her mistress, || So [are] our eyes to our God YHWH, || Until He favors us.
3Favor us, O YHWH, favor us, || For we have been greatly filled with contempt,
4Our soul has been greatly filled || With the scorning of the easy ones, || With the contempt of the arrogant!
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