Psalm 113–114

Praise for the Lord’s Kindness

113Praise the Lord!

Praise him, you servants of the Lord;

praise the name of the Lord.

²The Lord’s name should be praised

now and forever.

³The Lord’s name should be praised

from where the sun rises to where it sets.

⁴The Lord is supreme over all the nations;

his glory reaches to the skies.

⁵No one is like the Lord our God,

who rules from heaven,

⁶who bends down to look

at the skies and the earth.

⁷The Lord lifts the poor from the dirt

and takes the helpless from the ashes.

⁸He seats them with princes,

the princes of his people.

⁹He gives children to the woman who has none

and makes her a happy mother.

Praise the Lord!

God Brought Israel from Egypt

114When the Israelites went out of Egypt,

the people of Jacob left that foreign country.

²Then Judah became God’s holy place;

Israel became the land he ruled.

³The Red Sea looked and ran away;

the Jordan River turned back.

⁴The mountains danced like sheep

and the hills like little lambs.

⁵Sea, why did you run away?

Jordan, why did you turn back?

⁶Mountains, why did you dance like sheep?

Hills, why did you dance like little lambs?

⁷Earth, shake with fear before the Lord,

before the God of Jacob.

⁸He turned a rock into a pool of water,

a hard rock into a spring of water.