Psalm 113–114

Psalm 113

¹Hallelujah! 

You servants of the Lord, praise him. 

Praise the name of the Lord. 

²Thank the name of the Lord now and forever. 

³From where the sun rises to where the sun sets, 

the name of the Lord should be praised. 

⁴The Lord is high above all the nations. 

His glory is above the heavens. 

⁵Who is like the Lord our God? 

He is seated on his high throne. 

⁶He bends down to look at heaven and earth. 

⁷He lifts the poor from the dust. 

He lifts the needy from a garbage heap. 

⁸He seats them with influential people, 

with the influential leaders of his people. 

⁹He makes a woman who is in a childless home 

a joyful mother. 

Hallelujah! 

Psalm 114

¹When Israel left Egypt, 

when Jacob’s family left people who spoke a foreign language, 

²Judah became his holy place and Israel became his kingdom. 

³The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. 

The Jordan River turned back. 

⁴The mountains jumped like rams. 

The hills jumped like lambs. 

⁵Red Sea, why did you run away? 

Jordan River, what made you turn back? 

⁶Mountains, what made you jump like rams? 

Hills, what made you jump like lambs? 

⁷Earth, tremble in the presence of the Lord, 

in the presence of the God of Jacob. 

⁸He turns a rock into a pool filled with water 

and turns flint into a spring flowing with water.