Psalms 113

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

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

2 Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.

7 [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

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

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

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

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

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