Psalm 113

Common English Bible

Psalm 113

113 Praise the Lord!
    You who serve the Lord—praise!
    Praise the Lord’s name!
²Let the Lord’s name be blessed
    from now until forever from now!
³From sunrise to sunset,
    let the Lord’s name be praised!
⁴The Lord is high over all the nations;
    God’s glory is higher than the skies!

⁵Who could possibly compare to the Lord our God?
    God rules from on high;
⁶    he has to come down to even see heaven and earth!
⁷God lifts up the poor from the dirt
    and raises up the needy from the garbage pile
⁸        to seat them with leaders—
        with the leaders of his own people!
⁹    God nests the once barren woman at home—
        now a joyful mother with children!

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 114

Common English Bible

Psalm 114

114 When Israel came out of Egypt—
    when the house of Jacob came out
    from a people who spoke a different language—
²    Judah was God’s sanctuary;
    Israel was God’s territory.

³The sea saw it happen and ran away;
    the Jordan River retreated!
⁴The mountains leaped away like rams;
    the hills leaped away like lambs!
⁵Sea, why did you run away?
    Jordan, why did you retreat?
⁶    Mountains, why did you leap away like rams?
    Hills, why did you leap away like lambs?

⁷Earth: Tremble before the Lord!
    Tremble before the God of Jacob,
⁸        the one who turned that rock into a pool of water,
        that flint stone into a spring of water!