Song of Ascents Project (4/14) – Psalm 123

I’m skipping ahead to Psalm 123 because I need to rerecord Psalm 122.

Psalm 123 (Have Mercy On Us)

To You I lift my eyes

To You entrained in the heavens

As a servant looks to the hand of his master

So our eyes look to You, O God

‘Til You have mercy on us, have mercy on us

Have mercy, O Lord, on us 

For we had more than enough contempt

Our souls have more than enough of the scorns of those at ease

And the contempt of the proud

Have mercy on us!

(We look to you.)

Comments? It’s a classic lament. When times go hard, we look to God. It seems like those in the bible tend to face rather hard times with people around them (Psalm 121, 123) I feel like I broke out of the meter concept and suffered a bit with it.

Psalm 122 is on its way. I got teary eyed writing that one, which surprised me. (Shhh.)

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