Psalm 113–114

Psalm 113

¹Praise the Lord!

Yes, give praise, O servants of the Lord.

Praise the name of the Lord!

²Blessed be the name of the Lord

now and forever.

³Everywhere—from east to west—

praise the name of the Lord.

⁴For the Lord is high above the nations;

his glory is higher than the heavens.

⁵Who can be compared with the Lord our God,

who is enthroned on high?

⁶He stoops to look down

on heaven and on earth.

⁷He lifts the poor from the dust

and the needy from the garbage dump.

⁸He sets them among princes,

even the princes of his own people!

⁹He gives the childless woman a family,

making her a happy mother.

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 114

¹When the Israelites escaped from Egypt—

when the family of Jacob left that foreign land—

²the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary,

and Israel became his kingdom.

³The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way!

The water of the Jordan River turned away.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs!

⁵What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way?

What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away?

⁶Why, mountains, did you skip like rams?

Why, hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob.

⁸He turned the rock into a pool of water;

yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.