1 <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
<A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
<A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
<A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
<A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
<A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
<A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
<A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
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Commentary on Psalms 123 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Ps 123:1-4. An earnest and expecting prayer for divine aid in distress.
1. (Compare Ps 121:1).
thou that dwellest—literally, "sittest as enthroned" (compare Ps 2:4; 113:4, 5).
2. Deference, submission, and trust, are all expressed by the figure. In the East, servants in attending on their masters are almost wholly directed by signs, which require the closest observance of the hands of the latter. The servants of God should look (1) to His directing hand, to appoint them their work; (2) to His supplying hand (Ps 104:28), to give them their portion in due season; (3) to His protecting hand, to right them when wronged; (4) to His correcting hand (Isa 9:13; 1Pe 5:6; compare Ge 16:6); (5) to His rewarding hand.
3. contempt—was that of the heathen, and, perhaps, Samaritans (Ne 1:3; 2:19).
4. of those that are at ease—self-complacently, disregarding God's law, and despising His people.