1A Song of Ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, O 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 Yehovah our God, Until he has mercy upon us.
3Have mercy upon us, O Yehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those who are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.