1 I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.2 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 our God, till he shows us his mercy.3 Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.4 We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.

1 Canticum graduum. [Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis,dicat nunc Isral,2 nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis :cum exsurgerent homines in nos,3 forte vivos deglutissent nos ;cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos,4 forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos ;5 torrentem pertransivit anima nostra ;forsitan pertransisset anima nostraaquam intolerabilem.6 Benedictus Dominus, qui non dedit nosin captionem dentibus eorum.7 Anima nostra sicut passer erepta estde laqueo venantium ;laqueus contritus est,et nos liberati sumus.8 Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini,qui fecit clum et terram.]