| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1A Song of Ascents. Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. | 1I lift my eyes to you, O God, enthroned in heaven. |
| 2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He has mercy on us. | 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, O LORD, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. | 3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had our fill of contempt. |
| 4Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud. | 4We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | 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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