| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! | 1A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven. |
| 2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us. | 2Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress, so my eyes will look to the LORD, our God, until he shows us favor. |
| 3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. | 3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. |
| 4Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud. | 4We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud. |
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