Psalms 113

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

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

2 Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time 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 to his setting, the name of the Lord 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 the 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 as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

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

and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on 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 lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

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

to 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 settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.