Psalms 113

1 Praise the Lord! Praise him, servants of the Lord! Praise the Lord's as he is!

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

2 Let the Lord's nature be praised, now and forever.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 Let everyone everywhere, from the east to the west, praise the Lord as he is!

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

4 The Lord rules supreme over all nations; his glory extends 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? He is the one who lives on high, seated on his throne.

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

6 He has to stoop low to look down on the heavens and the earth.

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

7 He helps the poor up from the dust; he 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 He gives them positions of honor together important leaders, with leaders of his own people.

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

9 He makes the childless woman happy in her home by giving her children. Praise the Lord!

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