Psalms 113

1 Hallelujah! Give praise, O servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.

Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise (him/his name)!

2 Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forevermore.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 From where the sun rises to where it sets, the name of the LORD is praised.

People who live in the east and people who live in the west, everyone, should praise Yahweh [MTY]!

4 The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.

Yahweh rules [MTY] over all the nations, and high in the heavens he shows that his glory is very great.

5 Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?

There is no one [RHQ] who is like Yahweh, our God, who lives/sits/rules in the highest heaven,

6 He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.

and looks far down through the heavens and sees the [people on] the earth.

7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

[Sometimes] he lifts poor people up [so that they no longer sit in] the dirt; he helps needy [people so that they no longer sit on] heaps of ashes

8 to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

and causes them to [be honored] by sitting next to princes, the sons of the kings [who rule] their people.

9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!