113 Praise Yah!
    Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
    praise Yahweh’s name.
² Blessed be Yahweh’s name,
    from this time forward and forever more.
³ From the rising of the sun to its going down,
    Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
⁴ Yahweh is high above all nations,
    his glory above the heavens.
⁵ Who is like Yahweh, our God,
    who has his seat on high,
⁶     Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
⁷ He raises up the poor out of the dust.
    Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
⁸ that he may set him with princes,
    even with the princes of his people.
⁹ He settles the barren woman in her home
    as a joyful mother of children.
Praise Yah!

114 When Israel went out of Egypt,
    the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
² Judah became his sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.
³ The sea saw it, and fled.
    The Jordan was driven back.
⁴ The mountains skipped like rams,
    the little hills like lambs.
⁵ What was it, you sea, that you fled?
    You Jordan, that you turned back?
⁶ You mountains, that you skipped like rams;
    you little hills, like lambs?
⁷ Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸ who turned the rock into a pool of water,
    the flint into a spring of waters.

115 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
    but to your name give glory,
    for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

² Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God, now?”

³ But our God is in the heavens.
    He does whatever he pleases.

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold,
    the work of men’s hands.

⁵ They have mouths, but they don’t speak.
    They have eyes, but they don’t see.

⁶ They have ears, but they don’t hear.
    They have noses, but they don’t smell.

⁷ They have hands, but they don’t feel.
    They have feet, but they don’t walk,
    neither do they speak through their throat.

⁸ Those who make them will be like them;
    yes, everyone who trusts in them.

⁹ Israel, trust in Yahweh!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹⁰ House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹¹ You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹² Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us.
    He will bless the house of Israel.
    He will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³ He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
    both small and great.

¹⁴ May Yahweh increase you more and more,
    you and your children.

¹⁵ Blessed are you by Yahweh,
    who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶ The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,
    but he has given the earth to the children of men.

¹⁷ The dead don’t praise Yah,
    neither any who go down into silence;

¹⁸ but we will bless Yah,
    from this time forward and forever more.
Praise Yah!

116 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice,
    and my cries for mercy.
² Because he has turned his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
³ The cords of death surrounded me,
    the pains of Sheol^[a] got a hold of me.
    I found trouble and sorrow.
⁴ Then I called on Yahweh’s name:
    “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
⁵ Yahweh is gracious and righteous.
    Yes, our God is merciful.
⁶ Yahweh preserves the simple.
    I was brought low, and he saved me.
⁷ Return to your rest, my soul,
    for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
⁸ For you have delivered my soul from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    and my feet from falling.
⁹ I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
¹⁰ I believed, therefore I said,
    “I was greatly afflicted.”
¹¹ I said in my haste,
    “All people are liars.”
¹² What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
¹³     I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
¹⁴ I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
    yes, in the presence of all his people.
¹⁵ Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
¹⁶ Yahweh, truly I am your servant.
    I am your servant, the son of your servant girl.
    You have freed me from my chains.
¹⁷ I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
    and will call on Yahweh’s name.
¹⁸ I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
    yes, in the presence of all his people,
¹⁹ in the courts of Yahweh’s house,
    in the middle of you, Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!

117 Praise Yahweh, all you nations!
    Extol him, all you peoples!
² For his loving kindness is great toward us.
    Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever.
Praise Yah!

118 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.
² Let Israel now say
    that his loving kindness endures forever.
³ Let the house of Aaron now say
    that his loving kindness endures forever.
⁴ Now let those who fear Yahweh say
    that his loving kindness endures forever.
⁵ Out of my distress, I called on Yah.
    Yah answered me with freedom.
⁶ Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?
⁷ Yahweh is on my side among those who help me.
    Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
⁸ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
    than to put confidence in man.
⁹ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
    than to put confidence in princes.
¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me,
    but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
¹¹ They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
    In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
¹² They surrounded me like bees.
    They are quenched like the burning thorns.
    In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
¹³ You pushed me back hard, to make me fall,
    but Yahweh helped me.
¹⁴ Yah is my strength and song.
    He has become my salvation.
¹⁵ The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
    “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
¹⁶ The right hand of Yahweh is exalted!
    The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
¹⁷ I will not die, but live,
    and declare Yah’s works.
¹⁸ Yah has punished me severely,
    but he has not given me over to death.
¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness.
    I will enter into them.
    I will give thanks to Yah.
²⁰ This is the gate of Yahweh;
    the righteous will enter into it.
²¹ I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me,
    and have become my salvation.
²² The stone which the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone.^[b]
23 This is Yahweh’s doing.
    It is marvelous in our eyes.
²⁴ This is the day that Yahweh has made.
    We will rejoice and be glad in it!
²⁵ Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh!
    Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
²⁶ Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name!
    We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
²⁷ Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.
    Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
²⁸ You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.
    You are my God, I will exalt you.
²⁹ Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.