| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! | 1I lift my eyes to you, O God, 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. | 2We keep looking to the LORD our God for his mercy, just as servants keep their eyes on their master, as a slave girl watches her mistress for the slightest signal. |
| 3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. | 3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had our fill of contempt. |
| 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 more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant. |
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