Prayer for the LORD’S Help.

A Song of Ascents.

1To You I lift up my eyes,
         O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

2Behold, 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 the LORD our God,
         Until He is gracious to us.

3Be gracious to us, O LORD, be gracious to us,
         For we are greatly filled with contempt.

4Our soul is greatly filled
         With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
         And with the contempt of the proud.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

Darby Bible Translation
{A Song of degrees.} Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

English Revised Version
A Song of Ascents. Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.

Webster's Bible Translation
A Song of degrees. To thee I raise my eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

World English Bible
To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation
A Song of the Ascents. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens.But Concerning True Patience, Worthy of the Name of this virtue...
12. But concerning true patience, worthy of the name of this virtue, whence it is to be had, must now be inquired. For there are some [2650] who attribute it to the strength of the human will, not which it hath by Divine assistance, but which it hath of free-will. Now this error is a proud one: for it is the error of them which abound, of whom it is said in the Psalm, "A scornful reproof to them which abound, and a despising to the proud." [2651] It is not therefore that "patience of the poor" which …
St. Augustine—On Patience

Parable of the Pharisee and Publican.
^C Luke XVIII. 9-14. ^c 9 And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought [It is commonly said that this parable teaches humility in prayer, but the preface and conclusion (see verse 14) show that it is indeed to set forth generally the difference between self-righteousness and humility, and that an occasion of prayer is chosen because it best illustrates the point which the Lord desired to teach. The parable shows that …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Psalms
The piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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