Psalms 113

1 Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.

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

2 Let blessing be on the name of the Lord, from this time and for ever.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 From the coming up of the sun to its going down, the Lord's name is to be praised.

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

4 The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than 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, who is seated on high,

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

6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

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

7 He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

[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 give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers 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 gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

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