Ψαλμοί 113

1 αλληλουια αἰνεῖτε παῖδες κύριον αἰνεῖτε τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου

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

2 εἴη τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου εὐλογημένον ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου μέχρι δυσμῶν αἰνεῖτε τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου

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

4 ὑψηλὸς ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὁ κύριος ἐπὶ τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ἡ δόξα αὐτοῦ

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

5 τίς ὡς κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν ὑψηλοῖς κατοικῶν

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

6 καὶ τὰ ταπεινὰ ἐφορῶν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐν τῇ γῇ

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

7 ὁ ἐγείρων ἀπὸ γῆς πτωχὸν καὶ ἀπὸ κοπρίας ἀνυψῶν πένητα

[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 τοῦ καθίσαι αὐτὸν μετὰ ἀρχόντων μετὰ ἀρχόντων λαοῦ αὐτοῦ

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

9 ὁ κατοικίζων στεῖραν ἐν οἴκῳ μητέρα τέκνων εὐφραινομένην

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