Psalms · Chapter 123 · 4 verses
Psalms 123
About this chapter
Psalms 123 — Post-Exilic Period
Anonymous — Unknown psalmist writing for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. Set in Jerusalem temple courts. A community under siege looks up desperately for divine intervention. Like servants watching their master's hands for any sign of favor, they refuse to look away from heaven despite the mockery and contempt surrounding them. Their eyes are fixed upward in unwavering hope.
“Psalms 123:2” — 123:2
The raw vulnerability of people who have nowhere else to turn but up.
Read when: Read this when you're facing ridicule or opposition and need the strength to keep looking to God for help.
1To you I do lift up my eyes, 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 Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us. 3Have mercy on us, Yahweh, 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. A Song of Ascents. By David.