Psalm 113-114
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Psalm 113
God the Helper of the Needy
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise, O servants of the Lord;
praise the name of the Lord.(A)
2 Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time on and forevermore.(B)
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting,
the name of the Lord is to be praised.(C)
4 The Lord is high above all nations
and his glory above the heavens.(D)
5 Who is like the Lord our God,
who is seated on high,(E)
6 who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?(F)
7 He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
8 to make them sit with princes,
with the princes of his people.
9 He gives the barren woman a home,
making her the joyous mother of children.
Praise the Lord!(G)
Psalm 114
God’s Wonders at the Exodus
1 [a]When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,(H)
2 Judah became God’s[b] sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.(I)
3 The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.(J)
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.(K)
5 Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,(L)
8 who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.(M)
Footnotes
- 114.1 Psalms 114–115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses
- 114.2 Heb his
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