Psalms 113

1 Alleluia. Praise the Lord, you servants [of his], praise, the name of the Lord.

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

2 Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord 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 above all the nations; his glory is 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 as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

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

6 and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth:

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

7 who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

[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 set him with princes, [even] 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 who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

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