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123 Psalms

A Song of Ascents.  
1 To you I lift up my eyes,
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

Be Merciful to us O Lord. Psalm 123(v122)
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to Yahweh our God,
till he have mercy upon us.

 
3 Have mercy upon us, O Yahweh, have mercy upon us,
for we have had more than enough of contempt.

 
4 Too long our soul has been sated
with the scorn of those who are at ease,
the contempt of the proud.

 
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The katapi New Standard Bible is a very light revision of the RSV. The changes are: (1) In places where 'the LORD', 'O LORD' occurs in the RSV, (it represents the tetragrammaton - YHWH - which is in the hebrew text), I have printed 'YHWH' in black. The later vowel sounds I have shown in the colour gray;
(2) I have removed the quotation marks and hyphens that were used in so many names in the RSV as an aid to correct pronunciation. This now brings it in line with all other English versions, and makes any word-search more accurate.
(3) I have changed all (I hope!) of the RSV archaic language sections to modern.

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