Psalms 113

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

Alleluia. Praise the Lord, children. Praise the name of the Lord.

2 Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

Blessed is the name of the Lord, from this time forward and even forever.

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

From the rising of the sun, even to its setting, praiseworthy is the name of the Lord.

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

The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is high 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, who dwells on high,

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

and who gazes upon the humble things in heaven and on 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 lifts up the needy from the ground, and he urges the poor away from filth,

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

so that he may place him with the leaders, with the leaders 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 causes a barren woman to live in a house, as the joyful mother of sons.