Psalms 113

1 Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the LORD’s name.

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

2 Blessed be the LORD’s name, from this time forward and forever more.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 From the rising of the sun to its going down, the LORD’s name is to be praised.

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

4 The LORD is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

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

5 Who is like the LORD, our God, who has his seat on high,

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

6 who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

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

7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

[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

8 that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

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

9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

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