< Psalms 113 >
1 Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise (him/his name)!
Hallelujah. Praise, O ye 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 from this time forth and for ever.
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 unto the going down thereof the LORD'S name is to be 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 high above all nations, His glory is 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 unto the LORD our God, that is enthroned on high,
6 and looks far down through the heavens and sees the [people on] the earth.
That looketh down low upon heaven and upon 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
Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;
8 and causes them to [be honored] by sitting next to princes, the sons of the kings [who rule] their people.
That He may set him with princes, even 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!
Who maketh the barren woman to dwell in her house as a joyful mother of children. Hallelujah.