To you I do lift up my eyes,
you who sit in the heavens.
As the eyes of the servant look to the hand of their master.
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to our Lord,
until he has mercy on us. Have mercy on us!
We have endured much contempt and scoffing.
Our soul is filled with the scoffing
and with the contempt of the proud.