Psalm 113–114

In Praise of the ’s Goodness

113Praise the Lord!

You servants of the Lord,

praise his name!

²May his name be praised,

now and for ever.

³From the east to the west

praise the name of the Lord!

⁴The Lord rules over all nations;

his glory is above the heavens.

⁵There is no one like the Lord our God.

He lives in the heights above,

⁶but he bends down

to see the heavens and the earth.

⁷He raises the poor from the dust;

he lifts the needy from their misery

⁸and makes them companions of princes,

the princes of his people.

⁹He honours the childless wife in her home;

he makes her happy by giving her children.

Praise the Lord!

A Passover Song

114^*When the people of Israel left Egypt,

when Jacob’s descendants left that foreign land,

²Judah became the Lord’s holy people,

Israel became his own possession.

^3*The Red Sea looked and ran away;

the River Jordan stopped flowing.

⁴The mountains skipped like goats;

the hills jumped about like lambs.

⁵What happened, Sea, to make you run away?

And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?

⁶You mountains, why did you skip like goats?

You hills, why did you jump about like lambs?

⁷Tremble, earth, at the Lord’s coming,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

^8*who changes rocks into pools of water

and solid cliffs into flowing springs.