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Psalm 123.
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The worshipers look to God with the dependence of servants watching a master’s hand. Their plea seeks mercy amid prolonged contempt and ridicule.
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- 1A Song of degrees. Unto 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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