Psalms 123:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 123

²Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Psalms 123:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 130:5-6
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. …
Lamentations 3:25-26
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. …
Psalms 25:15
Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms 40:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. …
Genesis 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

We have here, I. The solemn profession which God’s people make of faith and hope in God, Ps. 123:1, 2. Observe, 1. The title here given to God: O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Our Lord Jesus has taught us, in prayer, to have an eye to God as our Father in heaven; not that he is confined there, but there especially he manifests his glory, as the King in his court. Heaven is a place of prospect…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Deference, submission, and trust, are all expressed by the figure. In the East, servants in attending on their masters are almost wholly directed by signs, which require the closest observance of the hands of the latter. The servants of God should look (1) to His directing hand, to appoint them their work; (2) to His supplying hand (Psa 104:28), to give them their portion in due season; (3) to…