Psalm 113–114

Psalm 113

¹Hallelujah! Praise, 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, let Jehovah’s name be praised. ⁴Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. ⁵Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high; ⁶Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth? ⁷He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, ⁸To set him among nobles, among the nobles of his people. ⁹He maketh the barren woman to keep house, as a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!

Psalm 114

¹When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, ²Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. ³The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back; ⁴The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. ⁵What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back? ⁶Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye 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.