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Bible study · Psalm 123:1-4

Psalm 123: Our eyes look to the LORD

Read Psalm 123:1-4 before you meet.

In a few lines

Psalm 123 lifts its eyes "to you, you who sit in the heavens" (123:1) and pictures servants and a maid with their eyes on a master's and a mistress's hand (123:2). In Hebrew that verse has no verb for look: only eyes, turned toward a hand. One verb for mercy comes three times, and the verb behind "endured" (123:3) is the verb of "filled" (123:4).

The verse to carry

“Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, 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.”

Psalm 123:2

To talk about

  1. 1. The psalm pictures eyes on a hand, looking to the LORD "until he has mercy on us" (123:2). What are you waiting on God for right now, and what does that waiting look like for you?

  2. 2. The psalm starts with "I lift up my eyes" (123:1) and goes on with "our eyes" (123:2). What would it look like for your group to look to God together, for one another, this week?

  3. 3. "We have endured much contempt" (123:3). When have you felt looked down on, and what helps you bring that to God instead of carrying it alone?

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