| 1 | 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. |