| New International Version | NET Bible |
| 1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. | 1A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven. |
| 2As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy. | 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 on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt. | 3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. |
| 4We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud. | 4We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud. |
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