> [[psalm-122|← Previous]] | [[psalm-00|TOC]] | [[psalm-124|Next →]] --- # Psalm 123 ## Reliance on the Lord 1 A song of ascents. To you I raise my eyes, to you enthroned in heaven. 2 Yes, like the eyes of servants on the hand of their masters, Like the eyes of a maid on the hand of her mistress, So our eyes are on the LORD our God, till we are shown favor. 3 Show us favor, LORD, show us favor, for we have our fill of contempt. 4 Our souls are more than sated with mockery from the insolent, with contempt from the arrogant. \* (Psalm 123) A lament that begins as a prayer of an individual ([Ps 123:1]), who expresses by a touching comparison exemplary confidence in God ([Ps 123:2]). The Psalm ends in prayer that God relieve the people’s humiliation at the hands of the arrogant ([Ps 123:3] – [4]). a. (123:1) ([[psalm-25|Ps 25]]:15]; [119:82]; [141:8]. b. (123:3) [Ps 44:13] – [14]; [Jb 12:4]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[psalm-122|← Previous]] | [[psalm-00|TOC]] | [[psalm-124|Next →]]