Bible: Psalms 113-114

Psalm 113 1 

113:1 Praise the Lord!

Praise, you servants of the Lord,

praise the name of the Lord!

113:2 May the Lord’s name be praised

now and forevermore!

113:3 From east to west 2 

the Lord’s name is deserving of praise.

113:4 The Lord is exalted over all the nations;

his splendor reaches beyond the sky. 3 

113:5 Who can compare to the Lord our God,

who sits on a high throne? 4 

113:6 He bends down to look 5 

at the sky and the earth.

113:7 He raises the poor from the dirt,

and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile, 6 

113:8 that he might seat him with princes,

with the princes of his people.

113:9 He makes the barren woman of the family 7 

a happy mother of children. 8 

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 114 9 

114:1 When Israel left Egypt,

when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, 10 

114:2 Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his kingdom.

114:3 The sea looked and fled; 11 

the Jordan River 12  turned back. 13 

114:4 The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs. 14 

114:5 Why do you flee, O sea?

Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

114:6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,

like lambs, O hills?

114:7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord

before the God of Jacob,

114:8 who turned a rock into a pool of water,

a hard rock into springs of water! 15 

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