King James Version
Psalms 123:1 in the King James Version says “A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 123 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.”
Psalms 123:1 · KJV
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Unto thee lift I up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“O thou that dwellest”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
“in the heavens”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
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