Psalm 113

Psalm 113

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:

²Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.

⁵What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

⁶Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

⁷At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:

⁸Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.

⁹Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

¹⁰For thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God?

¹¹But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.

¹²The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.

¹³They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.

¹⁴They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.

¹⁵They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.

¹⁶Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

¹⁷The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

¹⁸The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

¹⁹They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

²⁰The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.

²¹He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.

²²May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.

²³Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

²⁴The heaven of heaven is the Lord’s: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

²⁵The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

²⁶But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.