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Psalms 123:1 A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
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 the note on Psa. 121:1.
Psalm 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.
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.
Psalm 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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.
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.
Psalm 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
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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