Psalm 111

English Standard Version

Great Are the Lord's Works

111 ^[a] ^(A)Praise the Lord!
I ^(B)will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
    in the company of ^(C)the upright, in the congregation.
²Great are the ^(D)works of the Lord,
    ^(E)studied by all who delight in them.
³^(F)Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
    and his ^(G)righteousness endures forever.
⁴He has ^(H)caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and merciful.
⁵He provides food for those who fear him;
    he ^(I)remembers his covenant forever.
⁶He has shown his people the power of his works,
    in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
⁷The works of his hands are faithful and just;
    all his precepts are ^(J)trustworthy;
⁸they are ^(K)established forever and ever,
    to be performed with ^(L)faithfulness and uprightness.
⁹He sent ^(M)redemption to his people;
    he has ^(N)commanded his covenant forever.
    ^(O)Holy and awesome is his name!
¹⁰^(P)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
    all those who practice it have ^(Q)a good understanding.
    His ^(R)praise endures forever!

Footnotes

Psalm 111:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

Psalm 113

English Standard Version

Who Is like the Lord Our God?

113 ^(A)Praise the Lord!
^(B)Praise, O ^(C)servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!

²^(D)Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore!
³^(E)From the rising of the sun to its setting,
^(F)the name of the Lord is ^(G)to be praised!

⁴The Lord is ^(H)high above all nations,
    and his ^(I)glory above the heavens!
⁵^(J)Who is like the Lord our God,
    who is seated on high,
⁶who ^(K)looks far down
    on the heavens and the earth?
⁷He ^(L)raises the poor from the dust
    and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
⁸to make them ^(M)sit with princes,
    with the princes of his people.
⁹He ^(N)gives the barren woman a home,
    making her the joyous mother of children.
^(O)Praise the Lord!

Psalm 114

English Standard Version

Tremble at the Presence of the Lord

114 When ^(A)Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from ^(B)a people of strange language,
²Judah became his ^(C)sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.

³^(D)The sea looked and fled;
^(E)Jordan turned back.
⁴^(F)The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.

⁵What ^(G)ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
⁶O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

⁷^(H)Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸who turns ^(I)the rock into ^(J)a pool of water,
^(K)the flint into a spring of water.