Psalms 123:1-4
The psalmist expresses humility and dependence on God, comparing their eyes to those of servants or maidservants waiting for mercy from their masters. They plead with God to have mercy on them due to their suffering at the hands of the proud and contemptuous.
1A Song of degrees.Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2Behold, 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.
3Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.