Psalm 113–114

Psalm 113

God the Helper of the Needy

¹Praise the Lord!

Praise, O servants of the Lord;

praise the name of the Lord.^*

²Blessed be the name of the Lord

from this time on and forevermore.^*

³From the rising of the sun to its setting,

the name of the Lord is to be praised.^*

⁴The Lord is high above all nations

and his glory above the heavens.^*

⁵Who is like the Lord our God,

who is seated on high,^*

⁶who looks far down

on the heavens and the earth?^*

⁷He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

⁸to make them sit with princes,

with the princes of his people.

⁹He gives the barren woman a home,

making her the joyous mother of children.

Praise the Lord!^*

Psalm 114

God’s Wonders at the Exodus

^1bWhen Israel went out from Egypt,

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

²Judah became God’s^c sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.^*

³The sea looked and fled;

Jordan turned back.^*

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.^*

⁵Why is it, O sea, that you flee?

O Jordan, that you turn back?

⁶O mountains, that you skip like rams?

O hills, like lambs?

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

at the presence of the God of Jacob,^*

⁸who turns the rock into a pool of water,

the flint into a spring of water.^*