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A Prayer for Mercy

A song for going up to worship.

123 Lord, I look up to you.
    You live in heaven.
Slaves depend on their masters.
    And a female servant depends on her mistress.
In the same way, we depend on our God.
    We wait for him to show us mercy.

Be kind to us, Lord. Be kind to us
    because we have been insulted.
We have suffered many insults from lazy people
    and much cruelty from the proud.

Psalm 123

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to you,
    to you who sit enthroned(A) in heaven.
As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
    as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord(B) our God,
    till he shows us his mercy.

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,
    for we have endured no end of contempt.
We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.