CHAPTER 123

AUTHOR UNKNOWN: PRAYER FOR MERCY

¹Unto You lift I up my eyes, O You Who dwells in the heavens. (The contrast is shown here between the great King of the heavens and the proud but puny king of the nations, evidenced in Verse 4.)

²Behold, as the eyes of the 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. (In the east, in ancient times, masters directed their servants with the hand rather than with the voice. Servants, therefore, watched the hand of their masters; likewise, Gods Hand directs, supplies, protects, comforts, caresses, corrects, and rewards His servants.)

³Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. (Even though Israel is held in contempt, the Lord will hear her cry during the coming Battle of Armageddon and have Mercy upon her.)

⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. (The one called the proud will be the Antichrist. He will be at ease, thinking that victory is his. He will find, to his dismay, that will not be the case.)