Psalm 113–114
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Psalm 11321
113:1Praise the Lord!
Praise, you servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!
113:2May the Lord’s name be praised
now and forevermore!
113:3From east to west1
the Lord’s name is deserving of praise.
113:4The Lord is exalted over all the nations;
his splendor reaches beyond the sky.2
113:5Who can compare to the Lord our God,
who sits on a high throne?3
113:6He bends down to look4
at the sky and the earth.
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
114:2Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his kingdom.
114:3The sea looked and fled;2
the Jordan River3 turned back.4
114:4The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.5
114:5Why do you flee, O sea?
Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
114:6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,
like lambs, O hills?
114:7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord—
before the God of Jacob,
114:8who turned a rock into a pool of water,
a hard rock into springs of water!6
Footnotes
- 21 Psalm 113. The psalmist praises God as the sovereign king of the world who reaches down to help the needy.
- 1 Heb “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The extent is not temporal (“from sunrise to sunset”) but spatial (“from the place where the sun rises [the east] to the place where it sets [the west].” In the phenomenological language of OT cosmology, the sun was described as rising in the east and setting in the west.
- 2 Heb “above the sky [is] his splendor.”
- 3 Heb “the one who makes high to sit.”
- 4 Heb “the one who makes low to see.”
- 5 The language of v. 7 is almost identical to that of 1 Sam 2:8.
- 6 Heb “of the house.”
- 7 Heb “sons.”
- 8 Psalm 114. The psalmist recalls the events of the exodus and conquest and celebrates God’s kingship over his covenant people.
- 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.
- 2 The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).
- 3 Heb “the Jordan” (also in v. 5). The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
- 4 The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Jordan River (Josh 3:13, 16).
- 5 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. This may recall the theophany at Sinai when the mountain shook before God’s presence (Exod 19:18).
- 6 In v. 8 the psalmist recalls the event(s) recorded in Exod 17:6 and/or Num 20:11 (see also Deut 8:15 and Ps 78:15–16, 20).
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