| New International Version | New Living Translation |
| 1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. | 1I lift my eyes to you, O God, 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. | 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 on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt. | 3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had our fill of contempt. |
| 4We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud. | 4We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant. |
| New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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