MSB Audio · Psalms 123
Majority Standard Bible
1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
3 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
4 We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
KJV
1 ¶ A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, 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.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
1545 Luther's English Bible (LED)
The pious condition and comfort.
1 a song in the higher chorus. I lift up mine eyes unto thee that sitteth in heaven.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of maidservants on the hands of their wives; so our eyes look on the LORD our God, until he be gracious unto us.
3 Be gracious unto us, O LORD, be gracious unto us: for we are very full of contempt.
4 Very full is our soul of proud scorn, and of proud contempt.
1545 Luther's English Bible (LED)
Machine-translated from Luther's final 1545 German Bible
The LED is an English rendering of Martin Luther's final 1545 German Bible. According to BackToLuther, it was produced by using the DeepL Translator on Luther's German text, then processed, polished, formatted, and hyperlinked for reading, while preserving chapter headings and other notations from orthodox German Lutheran Bibles.
Source attribution: BackToLuther, “Luther's 1545 Bible - in English by… DeepL Translator (The LED Bible)”.
For print editions, see “1545 Luther's English Bible (LED): now in print”.
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