9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God: I will seek to do
thee good.
PSALM 123. _Ad te levavi oculos meos_.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their
masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress:
even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy
upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are utterly
despised.
4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy: and
with the despitefulness of the proud.
PSALM 124. _Nisi quia Dominus_.
If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say:
if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;
2 They had swallowed us up quick: when they were so wrathfully
displeased at us.
3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our
soul.