Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day

Lifting Our Eyes and Giving Thanks: Psalms 123 and 124

This script presents the full text of Psalm 123 and Psalm 124, both identified as Songs of degrees, with Psalm 124 attributed to David. Psalm 123 is a prayer that lifts its eyes to the Lord who dwells in the heavens, comparing the faithful to servants watching the hand of their master and a maiden watching her mistress, waiting for mercy. It pleads repeatedly for God’s mercy and describes a soul overwhelmed with contempt, scorn, and the disdain of the proud. Psalm 124 reflects on Israel’s deliverance, declaring that if the Lord had not been on their side, enemies would have swallowed them and the waters would have overwhelmed them. It blesses the Lord for not giving them as prey, pictures escape like a bird freed from a broken snare, and concludes that help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth.

00:00 Psalm 123 — Lifting Our Eyes to Heaven for Mercy
00:43 Psalm 124 — If the Lord Had Not Been on Our Side
01:15 Psalm 124 — Delivered from the Snare: Our Help in the Lord’s Name

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Psalm 123 - A Song of degrees

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O
thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Behold, 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; so our eyes wait upon the Lord

our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord,
have mercy upon us: for we are

exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with
the scorning of those that are at ease,

and with the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124 - A Song of degrees of David

If it had not been the Lord who was
on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the Lord who was on
our side, when men rose up against us:

Then they had swallowed us up quick,
when their wrath was kindled against us:

Then the waters had overwhelmed us,
the stream had gone over our soul:

Then the proud waters
had gone over our soul.

Blessed be the Lord, who hath not
given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out
of the snare of the fowlers: the

snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Our help is in the name of the
Lord, who made heaven and earth.