Psalm 113–114

PSALM 113

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 forth and for evermore!

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

upon 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

¹When Israel went forth from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

²Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled,

Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵What ails you, 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.