Psalm 113

1 Alleluja! Des Herren Knechte, preist, lobpreist des Herren Namen!

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

2 Des Herren Name sei gepriesen von nun an bis in Ewigkeit!

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 Vom Sonnenaufgang bis zum Niedergang sei hochgelobt des Herrn Name!

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

4 Der Herr sei über alle Heiden hoch erhaben! Bis in den Himmel reiche seine Ehrung!

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

5 Wer gleicht dem Herrn, unserm Gott, der in der Höhe thront,

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

6 der tief herniederblickt, im Himmel dort, hier auf die Erde?

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

7 Aus Staub zieht er den Niedrigen empor und hebt den Dürftigen aus dem Kot

[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 und setzt ihn neben Fürsten, zu seines Volkes Fürsten.

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

9 Er läßt die Frau, die nie gebar, im Hause bleiben, als Kindermutter hochwillkommen.

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