Psalms 123:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

<A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 121:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
  • Ps 141:8 : 8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
  • Ps 2:4 : 4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
  • Ps 25:15 : 15 My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.
  • Ps 120:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
  • Ps 132:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;
  • Ps 133:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.
  • Ps 113:5-6 : 5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, 6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
  • Ps 115:3 : 3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
  • Ps 125:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
  • Ps 128:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
  • Ps 130:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
  • Ps 124:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);
  • Ps 129:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

Similar Verses (AI)

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    2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.

    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

  • Ps 121:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

    2 Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

  • Ps 25:1
    81%

    1 <Of David.> To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

  • Lam 3:50
    78%

    50 Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.

  • Ps 141:8
    77%

    8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

  • Ps 25:15-16
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    76%

    15 My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.

    16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

  • Ps 102:19
    74%

    19 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;

  • Ps 33:13
    74%

    13 The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;

  • Lam 3:41
    74%

    41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

  • Ps 119:123
    74%

    123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

  • Ps 113:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

    6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

  • Ps 131:1
    73%

    1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

  • Ps 5:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

    3 My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

  • Job 35:5
    73%

    5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

  • 1 Kgs 8:52
    73%

    52 Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.

  • Ps 8:1
    73%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

  • Ps 119:18
    73%

    18 Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

  • Ps 9:13
    73%

    13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Ps 4:6
    73%

    6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

  • Ps 141:1
    73%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.

  • Ps 130:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

    2 Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.

  • Ps 86:4
    73%

    4 Make glad the soul of your servant; for it is lifted up to you, O Lord.

  • Ps 134:1-2
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    1 <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.

    2 Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

  • Ps 122:9
    73%

    9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.

  • Ps 11:4
    73%

    4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

  • Ps 28:2
    73%

    2 Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

  • Ps 148:1
    72%

    1 Give praise to the Lord. Let the Lord be praised from the heavens: give him praise in the skies.

  • Ps 13:3
    72%

    3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

  • Ps 3:3
    72%

    3 But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.

  • Ps 108:5
    72%

    5 Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

  • Ps 130:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.

    6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.

  • Ps 145:15
    72%

    15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.

  • 1 Kgs 8:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28 Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;

    29 That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

  • Ps 119:82
    71%

    82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

  • 2 Chr 20:12
    71%

    12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

  • Ps 39:7
    71%

    7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Isa 63:15
    71%

    15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

  • Ps 33:18
    71%

    18 See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

  • Ps 30:1
    71%

    1 <A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

  • Ps 84:9
    71%

    9 O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

  • Ps 77:4
    71%

    4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.