Psalm 123
Servants of the LORD
This is a song for climbing.
You are sitting in
123:1Verse 1: Heaven is the home of God. We do not know where it is. The Hebrew word also means ‘the skies.’
· like men who are servants look to the hands of their masters;
· like a woman who is a servant looks to the hand of her
LORD, have
123:2Verse 2: The notes on Psalm 120 explain the word ‘LORD .’ The psalmist (the person that wrote the psalm) has had enough of words that are not kind. He looks to God for help. He looks to God like a servant looked to the hand of his master or her mistress. A mistress would use their hand to tell a servant what to do. That is why he said this. A master or mistress was a women with authority.
We have had more than enough
123:3Verses 2–3: ‘Have mercy ’ is an important Christian prayer . You say a prayer when you speak to God. To ask God to ‘have mercy’ means to ask him not to punish (hurt) you when you have done something wrong. Instead, you ask him to be kind and to forgive you. The notes on Psalm 130 explain the word ‘forgive.’
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123:4Verses 3-4: Sometimes people think and say things that are not kind about you. We call that ‘contempt .’ ‘Proud people’ think that they are more important than they are. When powerful people make poor people work for little or no money we call this ‘oppression.’ Also, when powerful people are cruel people, we call that ‘oppression’ too. In Psalm 123, the powerful people oppress the poor people.