{"id":250,"date":"2025-10-04T01:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:09:47","slug":"psalm-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 123"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Song of Ascents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 To you I lift up my <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">eyes<\/mark>,<br>O you who are enthroned in the heavens!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">2 Behold, as the <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">eyes<\/mark> of servants<br>look to the hand of their master,<br>as the <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">eyes<\/mark> of a maidservant<br>to the hand of her mistress,<br>so our <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">eyes<\/mark> look to the Lord our God,<br>till He has <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">mercy<\/mark> upon us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Have <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">mercy<\/mark> upon us, O Lord, have <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">mercy<\/mark> upon us,<br>for we have had more than enough of contempt.<br>4 Our soul has had more than enough<br>of the scorn of those who are at ease,<br>of the contempt of the proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Song of Ascents. 1 To you I lift up my eyes,O you who are enthroned in the heavens! 2 Behold, as the eyes of servantslook to the hand of their master,as the eyes of a maidservantto the hand of her mistress,so our eyes look to the Lord our God,till He has mercy upon us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}