[123:1] Lord, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.
[123:2] As a servant depends on his master, as a maid depends on her mistress, so we will keep looking to you, O Lord our God, until you have mercy on us.
[123:3] Be merciful to us, Lord, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.
[123:4] We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors.