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| 1To you, who sit enthroned in heaven, I lift up my eyes. | 1A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven. |
| 2Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us. | 2Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress, so my eyes will look to the LORD, our God, until he shows us favor. |
| 3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt. | 3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. |
| 4Our lives overflow with scorn from those who live at ease, with contempt from those who are proud. | 4We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud. |
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