مزامير 123:1

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1 [سرود درجات] به سوی تو چشمان خود را برمیافرازم، ای که بر آسمانها جلوس فرموده‌ای!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lift I: Psalms 25:15, Psalms 121:1, Psalms 141:8, Luke 18:13

O thou: Psalms 2:4, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 113:5, Psalms 113:6, Psalms 115:3, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 66:1, Matthew 6:9

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:30 - and hear 2 Kings 19:14 - spread it 2 Chronicles 6:21 - thy dwelling place 2 Chronicles 20:12 - our eyes Psalms 33:14 - General Psalms 34:5 - They Psalms 38:15 - do Psalms 136:26 - the God of heaven Isaiah 33:5 - he dwelleth Isaiah 37:14 - and Hezekiah went Isaiah 38:14 - mine eyes Isaiah 63:15 - the habitation Ezekiel 18:6 - neither hath lifted Daniel 4:34 - lifted John 11:41 - And Jesus John 17:1 - and lifted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes,.... Not only the eyes of his body, this being a prayer gesture; see Matthew 14:19; but the eyes of his mind and understanding, opened by the Spirit of God; particularly the eye of faith, by which he looked for and expected help and salvation from the Lord. The phrase is expressive of holy confidence in God, and a comfortable hope of receiving good things from him; as, on the contrary, when persons are ashamed and confounded with a sense of their sins, and the aggravations of them, and of their own unworthiness and vileness; and, on account of the same, almost out of all hope, cannot lift up their eyes to heaven, or their face before God, Ezra 9:6;

O thou that dwellest in the heavens; the heaven of heavens, the third heaven, the seat of angels and glorified saints; and though the Lord is everywhere, and fills heaven and earth with his presence, and cannot be contained any where; yet here is the more visible display of his glory; here he keeps his court; this is his palace, and here his throne is prepared, and on it he sits d; so some render the word here; as the Judge of the whole earth, and takes a view of all men and their actions; and, as the God of nature and providence, governs and orders all things after his own will; and, as the God of grace, sits on a throne of grace, kindly inviting and encouraging his people to come unto him: and therefore the psalmist addresses him as such; see Ecclesiastes 5:2 Matthew 6:9. The Targum is,

"O thou that sittest on a throne of glory in heaven!''

d הישבי "sedens", Montanus, Gejerus; "qui sedes", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unto thee - To God.

Lift I up mine eyes - In supplication and prayer. Nature prompts us to look up when we address God, as if he dwelt above us. It is the natural prompting of the heart that he must be the most exalted of all beings, dwelling above all. See Psalms 121:1.

O thou that dwellest in the heavens - Whose home - whose special home - is in heaven - above the sky. This is in accordance with the common feelings of people, and the common description of God in the Bible, though it is true also that God is everywhere. Compare Psalms 2:4; Psalms 11:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM CXXIII

The prayer and faith of the godly, 1, 2.

They desire to be delivered from contempt, 3, 4.

NOTES ON PSALM CXXIII

This Psalm is probably a complaint of the captives in Babylon relative to the contempt and cruel usage they received. The author is uncertain.

Verse Psalms 123:1. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes — We have no hope but in thee; our eyes look upward; we have expectation from thy mercy alone.