Psalm 113–115

Psalm 113

¹Praise ye Jehovah.

Praise, O ye servants of Jehovah,

Praise the name of Jehovah.

²Blessed be the name of Jehovah

From this time forth and for evermore.

³From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same

Jehovah’s name is to be praised.

⁴Jehovah is high above all nations,

And his glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like unto Jehovah our God,

That hath his seat on high,

⁶That humbleth himself to behold

The things that are in heaven and in the earth?

⁷He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,

And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

⁸That he may set him with princes,

Even with the princes of his people.

⁹He maketh the barren woman to keep house,

And to be a joyful mother of children.

Praise ye Jehovah.

Psalm 114

¹When Israel went forth out of Egypt,

The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

²Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea saw it, and fled;

The Jordan was driven back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

The little hills like lambs.

⁵What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest?

Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

⁶Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams;

Ye little hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord,

At the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸Who turned the rock into a pool of water,

The flint into a fountain of waters.

Psalm 115

¹Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us,

But unto thy name give glory,

For thy lovingkindness, and for thy truth’s sake.

²Wherefore should the nations say,

Where is now their God?

³But our God is in the heavens:

He hath done whatsoever he pleased.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold,

The work of men’s hands.

⁵They have mouths, but they speak not;

Eyes have they, but they see not;

⁶They have ears, but they hear not;

Noses have they, but they smell not;

⁷They have hands, but they handle not;

Feet have they, but they walk not;

Neither speak they through their throat.

⁸They that make them shall be like unto them;

Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

⁹O Israel, trust thou in Jehovah:

He is their help and their shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah:

He is their help and their shield.

¹¹Ye that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah:

He is their help and their shield.

¹²Jehovah hath been mindful of us; he will bless us:

He will bless the house of Israel;

He will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³He will bless them that fear Jehovah,

Both small and great.

¹⁴Jehovah increase you more and more,

You and your children.

¹⁵Blessed are ye of Jehovah,

Who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah;

But the earth hath he given to the children of men.

¹⁷The dead praise not Jehovah,

Neither any that go down into silence;

¹⁸But we will bless Jehovah

From this time forth and for evermore.

Praise ye Jehovah.