A Song of Ascents.
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,1 our God,2
Until he has mercy on us.
3Have mercy on us, YAHWEH, have mercy on us,
For we have endured much contempt.
4Our soul is greatly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
With the contempt of the proud.
- 123:2 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 123:2 God, English translation of elohim (Hebrew), which is related to allah (Arabic) and alaha (Syriac). All of these words translate accurately into English as “God,” and refer to the one true God. ↩︎