< Psalmowo 113 >
1 Mikafu Yehowa. O! Mi Yehowa ƒe dɔlawo, mikafui, mikafu Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ.
Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise (him/his name)!
2 Woakafu Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ tso fifia yi ɖe mavɔ me ke.
Yahweh should be praised now and forever!
3 Woakafu Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ tso ɣeyiɣi si ɣe adze va se ɖe esi wòaɖo to ɖe afi si wòɖoa to ɖo.
People who live in the east and people who live in the west, everyone, should praise Yahweh [MTY]!
4 Yehowa nye gã ɖe dukɔwo katã dzi, eye eƒe ŋutikɔkɔe gbɔ dziƒowo ta.
Yahweh rules [MTY] over all the nations, and high in the heavens he shows that his glory is very great.
5 Ame kae le abe Yehowa, míaƒe Mawu la ene, ame si nɔ anyi ɖe fiazikpui dzi le dziƒo,
There is no one [RHQ] who is like Yahweh, our God, who lives/sits/rules in the highest heaven,
6 eye wòbɔbɔ be yeakpɔ dziƒowo kple anyigba ɖa?
and looks far down through the heavens and sees the [people on] the earth.
7 Efɔ ame dahe ɖe tsitre tso ke me, eye wòfɔ hiãtɔ ɖe dzi tso dzowɔ me;
[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 hetsɔ wo ɖo dumegãwo xa, ɛ̃, woƒe dumegãwo xa.
and causes them to [be honored] by sitting next to princes, the sons of the kings [who rule] their people.
9 Ame si na konɔ nɔa eƒe aƒe me, hekpɔa dzidzɔ abe viwo dada ene. Mikafu Yehowa.
He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!