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Authorized King James Version

Psalms 123

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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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