Psalm 113–114

Psalm 113

¹Praise the Lord.^an

Praise the Lord, you his servants;^o

praise the name of the Lord.

²Let the name of the Lord be praised,^p

both now and forevermore.^q

³From the rising of the sun^r to the place where it sets,

the name of the Lord is to be praised.

⁴The Lord is exalted^s over all the nations,

his glory above the heavens.^t

⁵Who is like the Lord our God,^u

the One who sits enthroned^v on high,^w

⁶who stoops down to look^x

on the heavens and the earth?

⁷He raises the poor^y from the dust

and lifts the needy^z from the ash heap;

⁸he seats them^a with princes,

with the princes of his people.

⁹He settles the childless^b woman in her home

as a happy mother of children.

Praise the Lord.

Psalm 114

¹When Israel came out of Egypt,^c

Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

²Judah^d became God’s sanctuary,^e

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled,^f

the Jordan turned back;^g

⁴the mountains leaped^h like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵Why was it, sea, that you fled?ⁱ

Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

⁶Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,

you hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, earth,^j at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool,

the hard rock into springs of water.^k