| 1 ᾠδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν πρὸς σὲ ἦρα τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου τὸν κατοικοῦντα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ 2 ἰδοὺ ὡς ὀφθαλμοὶ δούλων εἰς χεῖρας τῶν κυρίων αὐτῶν ὡς ὀφθαλμοὶ παιδίσκης εἰς χεῖρας τῆς κυρίας αὐτῆς οὕτως οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεὸν ἡμῶν ἕως οὗ οἰκτιρήσαι ἡμᾶς 3 ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς κύριε ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς ὅτι ἐπὶ πολὺ ἐπλήσθημεν ἐξουδενώσεως 4 ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐπλήσθη ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν τὸ ὄνειδος τοῖς εὐθηνοῦσιν καὶ ἡ ἐξουδένωσις τοῖς ὑπερηφάνοις |
1 Unto thee I lift up my eyes, unto thee, who dwellest in the heavens. 2 See how the eyes of servants are fixed on the hands of their masters, the eyes of a maid on the hand of her mistress! Our eyes, too, are fixed on the Lord our God, waiting for him to shew mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us; we have had our fill of man’s derision. 4 Our hearts can bear no more to be the scorn of luxury, the derision of the proud. |
1 Ad te levavi oculos meos,
qui habitas in cælis. 2
Ecce sicut oculi servorum
in manibus dominorum suorum;
sicut oculi ancillæ
in manibus dominæ suæ:
ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum,
donec misereatur nostri. 3
Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri,
quia multum repleti sumus despectione; 4
quia multum repleta est anima nostra
opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis. |