123:1 To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.
123:3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
The verse centers on "mercy", "lift", "eyes", "heavens", "behold", "servants", "look", and "hand". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mercy" and "lift", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The local WEB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "mercy" and "lift" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "mercy" and "lift" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.