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[Psalms 123:1](../../../kjv/psalms/123/1) « A Song of degrees. » Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Ver. 1. **Unto thee lift I up mine eyes** ] Praying by them rather than by words, mine afflictions having swollen my heart too big for my mouth. *See Trapp on "* Psa 121:1 *"*

Psa 123:2 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.
Ver. 2. **Behold, as the eyes of servants** ] For direction, defence, maintenance, mercy in time of correction, help when the service is too hard, &c.; so do our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, viz. for direction and benediction.

Psa 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Ver. 3. **Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy** ] This is *preces fundere, coelum tundere, misericordiam extorquere,* as Tertullian hath it; to wring mercy out of God’s holy hands, by our utmost importunity.
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**For we are exceedingly filled with contempt** ] We are made the very scum and scorn of our proud imperious enemies. This the nature of man is very impatient of, and can hardly brook; for there is none so mean but holdeth himself worthy of some regard; and a reproachful scorn showeth an utter disrespect, which issueth from the very superfluity of malice.

Psa 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
Ver. 4. **Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease** ] And therehence insolent and unsufferable, for κορος υβριν τικτει , ease breedeth forgetfulness, yea, it maketh men scornful and wrongful to others.

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