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1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

<b>Who dwell</b> Heb. הישבי.The “yud” is superfluous.

<b>the ridicule of the complacent</b> [With] the ridicule of the complacent heathens we are sated. <b>the contempt</b> that they despised the valley of doves, which is Jerusalem. <b>the complacent</b> Heb. לגאיונים. It is written as one word and read as two.