Psalms 113

1 Praise Yahweh. Praise him, you servants of Yahweh; praise the name of Yahweh.

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

2 Blessed be the name of Yahweh, both now and forevermore.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 From the rising of the sun to its setting, Yahweh's name should be praised.

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

4 Yahweh is exalted above all nations, and his glory reaches above the skies.

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

5 Who is like Yahweh our God, who has his seat on high,

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

6 who looks down at the sky and at the earth?

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

7 He raises up the poor out of the dirt and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

[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 so that he may seat him with princes, 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 He gives a home to the barren woman of the house, he makes her a joyful mother of children. Praise Yahweh!

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