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Psalm 122 (123) — Song of Ascents

Psalmus 122 • Vulgate 122 / Hebrew 123

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Complete historical Scripture text: English Douay-Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752), from the John Murphy edition (1899); Latin Clementine Vulgate. Both underlying texts are public domain. Psalm 122 in Vulgate/Douay-Rheims numbering is Psalm 123 in modern Hebrew numbering (shown in parentheses). Numbered verses follow each source, retaining any superscriptions it prints; headings and verse divisions can differ between editions. This reader has 4 numbered verses in each language. It belongs to the fifteen gradual psalms (Songs of Ascents) in grant 9. Grant 30 concerns reverent spiritual reading of approved Scripture, with its specified duration for a plenary indulgence.

Text edition English: Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision (1749–1752), John Murphy edition (1899). Latin: Clementine Vulgate.

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English text

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Estimated English reading time 30–55 seconds

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1. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. 2. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us. 3. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. 4. For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

Latin text

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Estimated Latin reading time 20–45 seconds

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1. Canticum graduum. Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in caelis. 2. Ecce sicut oculi servorum in manibus dominorum suorum; sicut oculi ancillae in manibus dominae suae : 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.

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