Psalm 113–115

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.

Psalm 115

¹Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth’s sake. ²Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is 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 a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not; ⁶They have ears, and they hear not; a nose have they, and they smell not; ⁷They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat. ⁸They that make them are like unto them, —every one that confideth in them.

⁹O Israel, confide thou in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield. ¹⁰House of Aaron, confide in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield. ¹¹Ye that fear Jehovah, confide in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield. ¹²Jehovah hath been mindful of us: he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron; ¹³He will bless them that fear Jehovah, both the small and the great. ¹⁴Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children. ¹⁵Ye are blessed of Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁶The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth hath he given to the children of men. ¹⁷The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence; ¹⁸But we will bless Jah from this time forth and for evermore. Hallelujah!