A Song of Ascents.
1I lift up my eyes to You,
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 the Lord, our God,
until He has mercy on us.
3Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,
for we have endured much contempt.
4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud.
1Canticum graduum. Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in cælis. 2Ecce sicut oculi servorum in manibus dominorum suorum; sicut oculi ancillæ in manibus dominæ suæ: ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum, donec misereatur nostri. 3Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri, quia multum repleti sumus despectione; 4quia multum repleta est anima nostra opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.