Chapter 123
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
A. M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir. 541. (Title.) A Song of degrees. This Psalm is probably a complaint of the captives in Babylon, relative to the contempt and cruel usage they received
120.1 121.1 122.1 123.1 124.1 125.1 126.1 127.1 128.1 *titles; 129.1 130.1 131.1 132.1 133.1 134.1 *titles
lift I
O thou
2.4 11.4 113.5,6 115.3 Isaiah 57.15 66.1 Matthew 6.9
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.
as the eyes
so our eyes
40.1-3 119.82,123-125 130.5,6 Genesis 32.26 49.18 Lamentations 3.25,26 Luke 18.1
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Have mercy
56.1,2 57.1 69.13-16 Luke 18.11-13
for we are
44.13-16 89.50,51 Nehemiah 4.2-4 Isaiah 53.3 Luke 16.14 23.35
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
with the scorning
73.5-9 119.51 Job 12.5 16.4 Jeremiah 48.11,27,29 Acts 17.21,32 Acts 26.24 1 Corinthians 4.13