Psalmorum 113

1 alleluia laudate pueri Dominum laudate nomen Domini

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

2 sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 a solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini

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

4 excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus super caelos gloria eius

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

5 quis sicut Dominus Deus noster qui in altis habitat

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

6 et humilia respicit in caelo et in terra

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

7 suscitans a terra inopem et de stercore erigens pauperem

[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 ut conlocet eum cum principibus cum principibus populi sui

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

9 qui habitare facit sterilem in domo matrem filiorum laetantem

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