Psalm 122

A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God.

Does this psalm differ from what you were expecting? Don't be confused. There are two systems for arranging the psalms: the Septuagint and the Masoretic. We use the Septuagint system here. In the Masoretic system, which is used in most modern Bible translations, this psalm is called Psalm 123, and the previous psalm is known as Psalm 122.

English (Douay-Rheims)

A gradual canticle.

1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.
2 Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.
3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.
4 For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Canticum graduum.

Ad te levavi oculos meos,
qui habitas in cælis.
2 Ecce sicut oculi servorum
in manibus dominorum suorum;
sicut oculi ancillæ
in manibus dominæ suæ:
ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum,
donec misereatur nostri.
3 Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri,
quia multum repleti sumus despectione;
4 quia multum repleta est anima nostra
opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.

Transcribed as part of the Clementine Vulgate Project
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