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Psalm 113:7–114:1

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113:7He raises the poor from the dirt,

and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,5

113:8that he might seat him with princes,

with the princes of his people.

113:9He makes the barren woman of the family6

a happy mother of children.7

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 1148

114:1When Israel left Egypt,

when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,1

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Footnotes

  1. 5 The language of v. 7 is almost identical to that of 1 Sam 2:8.
  2. 6 Heb “of the house.”
  3. 7 Heb “sons.”
  4. 8 Psalm 114. The psalmist recalls the events of the exodus and conquest and celebrates God’s kingship over his covenant people.
  5. 1 Heb “the house of Jacob from a nation speaking a foreign language.” The Hebrew verb לָעַז (la’at, “to speak a foreign language”) occurs only here in the OT.