Chapter 122
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The fourth hymn contains a prayer for those returning and those who have been on the road for many years. Those tired of the journey ask God for mercy and mercy, like those humiliated by the pagans. Why does the Spirit, comforting them, answer them and say: reproach of those who take gobbles (Ps. 122:4).
Ps.123:1. I lift up my eyes to You, who live in heaven.
Ps.122:2. Behold, as the eyes of a servant are in the hand of his masters.
The eyes of those in whom “the spirit of work... is in fear” (Rom.8:15) are “into the hand of lords and mistresses”: and the eyes of the one in whom “the spirit of sonship” (Rom.8:15) are towards the Lord God.
Ps.122:3. Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us.
This repetition expresses the fervor of the petition. We ask for mercy, not as worthy, but as those who have been subjected to extreme reproach.
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