Psalms 113

1 Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise (him/his name)!

Praise the Lord! Praise him, servants of the Lord! Praise the Lord's as he is!

2 Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

Let the Lord's nature be praised, now and forever.

3 People who live in the east and people who live in the west, everyone, should praise Yahweh [MTY]!

Let everyone everywhere, from the east to the west, praise the Lord as he is!

4 Yahweh rules [MTY] over all the nations, and high in the heavens he shows that his glory is very great.

The Lord rules supreme over all nations; his glory extends higher than the heavens.

5 There is no one [RHQ] who is like Yahweh, our God, who lives/sits/rules in the highest heaven,

Who is like the Lord our God? He is the one who lives on high, seated on his throne.

6 and looks far down through the heavens and sees the [people on] the earth.

He has to stoop low to look down on the heavens and the earth.

7 [Sometimes] he lifts poor people up [so that they no longer sit in] the dirt; he helps needy [people so that they no longer sit on] heaps of ashes

He helps the poor up from the dust; he lifts the needy from the dump.

8 and causes them to [be honored] by sitting next to princes, the sons of the kings [who rule] their people.

He gives them positions of honor together important leaders, with leaders of his own people.

9 He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!

He makes the childless woman happy in her home by giving her children. Praise the Lord!