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Psalm 123 Literal Standard Version

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Majority (Byzantine) text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 2020
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (1)
LSV Literal Standard Version
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. I have lifted up my eyes to You, || O dweller in the heavens.
1 A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.
2 Behold, as eyes of menservants || [Are] to the hand of their masters, || As eyes of a maidservant || [Are] to the hand of her mistress, || So [are] our eyes to our God YHWH, || Until He favors us.
2 Behold, 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 Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.
3 Favor us, O YHWH, favor us, || For we have been greatly filled with contempt,
3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
4 Our soul has been greatly filled || With the scorning of the easy ones, || With the contempt of the arrogant!
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Cross references (4)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 121:1; Psalm 141:8; Psalm 25:15; Psalm 2:4; Luke 18:13
  2. 2 Psalm 130:5–6; Lamentations 3:25–26; Psalm 25:15; Psalm 40:1–3; Genesis 49:18
  3. 3 Psalm 57:1; Luke 18:11–13; Psalm 89:50–51; Nehemiah 4:2–4; Psalm 4:1
  4. 4 Psalm 119:51; Job 12:5; Acts 17:32; Isaiah 32:11; 1 Corinthians 4:13

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXII)

    This Psalm is a "Song of degrees;" as we have often said to you, for these degrees are not of descent, but of ascent. He therefore longeth to ascend. And whither doth he wish to ascend, save into heaven? What meaneth, into heaven? Doth he wish to ascend that he may be with the sun, moon, and stars?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 123:2 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XX, Chapters 6–7)

    … and from seducing whom he is restrained by that chain and imprisonment; but they are used in conformity with that usage frequently employed in Scripture and exemplified in the psalm, "So our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until He have mercy upon us," --not as if the eyes of His servants would no longer wait upon the Lord …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 123:1 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter XIV — 4-6)

    Do we think we can say, "To Thee have I lifted up my soul, O Thou that dwellest in the heavens"? But burdened as we are with so great a weight, under which we groan, how shall I lift up my soul unless He lift it with me who laid His own down for me?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)