Psalm 113–114

Psalm 113

¹Praise the Lord.

Praise him, you who serve the Lord.

Praise the name of the Lord.

²Let us praise the name of the Lord,

both now and forever.

³From the sunrise in the east to the sunset in the west,

may the name of the Lord be praised.

⁴The Lord is honored over all of the nations.

His glory reaches to the highest heavens.

⁵Who is like the Lord our God?

He sits on his throne in heaven.

⁶He bends down to look

at the heavens and the earth.

⁷He raises poor people up from the trash pile.

He lifts needy people out of the ashes.

⁸He lets them sit with princes.

He lets them sit with the princes of their own people.

⁹He gives children to the woman who doesn’t have any children.

He makes her a happy mother in her own home.

Praise the Lord.

Psalm 114

¹The people of Israel came out of Egypt.

The people of Jacob left a land where a different language was spoken.

²Then Judah became the holy place where God lived.

Israel became the land he ruled over.

³The Red Sea saw him and parted.

The Jordan River stopped flowing.

⁴The mountains leaped like rams.

The hills skipped like lambs.

⁵Red Sea, why did you part?

Jordan River, why did you stop flowing?

⁶Why did you mountains leap like rams?

Why did you hills skip like lambs?

⁷Earth, tremble with fear when the Lord comes.

Tremble when the God of Jacob is near.

⁸He turned the rock into a pool.

He turned the hard rock into springs of water.