Psalm 113–115

God’s Majesty and Care for the Needy

113Praise Yah!^a

Praise, O servants of Yahweh,

praise the name of Yahweh.

²Let the name of Yahweh be blessed,

from now until forever.

³From the rising of the sun to its setting,

let the name of Yahweh be blessed.

⁴Yahweh is high above all nations;

his glory is above the heavens.

⁵Who is like Yahweh our God,

who is enthroned on high,^b

⁶who condescends to look at^c

what is in the heavens and in the earth?

⁷He raises the helpless from the dust;

he lifts the needy from the ash heap,

⁸to seat them with princes,

with the princes of his people.

⁹He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell

as the happy mother of children.

Praise Yah!^d

Praise to God for His Works During the Exodus

114When Israel went out from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,

²Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled;

the Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.^a

⁵What’s with you, O sea, that you fled?

O Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶O mountains, that you skipped like rams?

O hills, like lambs?

⁷At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth,^b

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool of water,

flinty stone into a spring of water.

Dead Idols and the Living God

115Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us,

but to your name give glory,

because of your loyal love,

because of your faithfulness.

²Why should the nations say,

“Where, pray tell,^a is their God?”

³But our God is in the heavens;

all that he desires, he does.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold,

the work of human hands.

⁵They have mouths, but cannot speak;

they have eyes, but cannot see;

⁶they have ears, but cannot hear;

they have noses, but cannot smell;

⁷they have their hands, but they cannot feel,

their feet, but they cannot walk;

they cannot utter a sound in their throats.

⁸Those who make them become like them,

as does everyone who trusts in them.

⁹O Israel, trust Yahweh;

he is their help and their shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh;

he is their help and their shield.

¹¹You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh;

he is their help and their shield.

¹²Yahweh remembers us; he will bless us.

He will bless the house of Israel;

he will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³He will bless those who fear Yahweh,

the small with the great.

¹⁴May Yahweh give you increase,

you and your children.

¹⁵May you be blessed by Yahweh,

who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,

but the earth he has given to the children of humankind.

¹⁷The dead do not praise Yah,^b

nor any descending into silence.

¹⁸It is we, we will bless Yah^c

from now until forever.

Praise Yah!^d