Изъяснение псалма 122-го.

"Song of Degrees". And this psalm shows the piety of the righteous of that time. Ps.123:1. I lift up my eyes to You, O One who dwells in heaven! “I have lifted up my eyes to You, who dwells in heaven.” Disregarding all human help, I await Your help, Master, and I depend on Your providence; for I know that You are the Lord of the heavens. The Prophet said that God lives in heaven, not as described by a place, but as rejoicing over the heavenly powers living in heaven. Ps.122:2. Behold, as the eyes of slaves are turned to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a slave are turned to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are turned to the Lord our God, until He has mercy on us. “Behold, as the eyes of a servant are in the hand of his masters, as the eyes of a servant are in the hand of her mistress: so are our eyes towards the Lord our God.” Just as servants look into the hands of their masters, because from them they receive what they need to support life: so we also expect from You, Master, to receive the pleasure of blessings. By mentioning the slave girl, the Prophet does not mean the same thing, but shows a greater measure of affection; because slaves, constantly staying in the palaces with their mistresses, are usually more attentive to them than slaves and desire their favor. “Dondezhe will treat us with mercy.” We do not limit this hope to a certain time, but wait until we are worthy of mercy. Ps.122:3. Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we are filled enough with contempt. Ps.122:4. Our soul is quite saturated with reproach from the arrogant and humiliation from the proud. “Lord have mercy on us, have mercy on us.” Repetition shows the fervor of prayer. “As we are filled with much humiliation:” “Our soul is especially filled.” We ask for mercy, not as those worthy to be granted it, but as those who have become disgraced. “Reproach of the goblin and humiliation of the proud” 40 And Symmachus translated this: our soul is satisfied with what the rich say against us, the proud humiliate us. For the ridicule and insults of the arrogant Babylonians sadden us. And according to the translation of the seventy, it should be understood as follows: “reproach to the goblin and humiliation to the proud,” that is, change the state of affairs, Master, and on those who now boast of the prosperity in which they live, after our disasters. In Slavic we read: “reproach of those who gobug and humiliation of the proud.” You might be interested in: