To you I lift up my eyes, 
          O you who are enthroned in the heavens! 
²   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 upon us.

³   Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, 
          for we have had more than enough of contempt. 
⁴   Our soul has had more than its fill 
          of the scorn of those who are at ease, 
          of the contempt of the proud.