Psalms 113
113
1Praise the Lord!
Servants of the Lord, praise him!
Praise the Lord’s name.
2May the Lord’s name be praised
now and forever.
3May the Lord’s name be praised
from where the sun rises to where it goes down.
4The Lord is higher than all nations.
His glory rises to the skies.
5There is no one like the Lord our God.
He sits on his throne high in heaven.
6He is so high above us that he must look down
to see the sky and the earth.
7He lifts the poor out of the dirt
and rescues beggars from the garbage dump.
8He puts them in important positions,
giving them a place among the leaders of his people.
9He gives children to the woman whose home is empty.
He makes her a happy mother.
Praise the Lord!
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Psalms 113
113
Psalm 113#sn Psalm 113. The psalmist praises God as the sovereign king of the world who reaches down to help the needy.
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise, you servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!
2 May the Lord’s name be praised
now and forevermore!
3 From east to west#tn Heb “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The extent is not temporal (“from sunrise to sunset”) but spatial (“from the place where the sun rises [the east] to the place where it sets [the west].” In the phenomenological language of OT cosmology, the sun was described as rising in the east and setting in the west.
the Lord’s name is deserving of praise.
4 The Lord is exalted over all the nations;
his splendor reaches beyond the sky.#tn Heb “above the sky [is] his splendor.”
5 Who can compare to the Lord our God,
who sits on a high throne?#tn Heb “the one who makes high to sit.”
6 He bends down to look#tn Heb “the one who makes low to see.”
at the sky and the earth.
7 He raises the poor from the dirt,
and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,#sn The language of v. 7 is almost identical to that of 1 Sam 2:8.
8 that he might seat him with princes,
with the princes of his people.
9 He makes the barren woman of the family#tn Heb “of the house.”
a happy mother of children.#tn Heb “sons.”
Praise the Lord!
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