PRAISE TO THE MERCIFUL GOD

1 Hallelujah!

Give praise, servants of the Lord;

praise the name of the Lord.ae

2 Let the name of the Lord be blessed

both now and forever.af

3 From the rising of the sun to its setting,

let the name of the Lord be praised.ag

4 The Lord is exalted above all the nations,ah

his glory above the heavens.ai

5 Who is like the Lord our God—

the one enthroned on high,aj

6 who stoops down to look

on the heavens and the earth?ak

7 He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the trash heapal

8 in order to seat them with nobles—

with the nobles of his people.am

9 He gives the childless woman a household,

making her the joyful mother of children.an

Hallelujah!

Psalm 114

GOD’S DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL

1 When Israel came out of Egypt—

the house of Jacob from a people

who spoke a foreign languageao—

2 Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel, his dominion.ap

3 The sea looked and fled;a

the Jordan turned back.b

4 The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills, like lambs.c

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled?

Jordan, that you turned back?d

6 Mountains, that you skipped like rams?

Hills, like lambs?e

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

at the presence of the God of Jacob,f

8 who turned the rock into a pool,

the flint into a spring.g