Psalm 113

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹Hallelujah! Praise the name of the Lord. Give praise, O servants of the Lord,

²who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

²⁰O house of Levi, bless the Lord; you who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!

¹A song of ascents. Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who serve by night in the house of the Lord!

¹Rejoice in the Lord, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

³⁶The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.

²⁰and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him.

¹³And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

³⁶Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the Lord!”

¹³Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

¹⁰Then David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O Lord, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

¹¹Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

²¹to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

¹¹For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of Hosts.

³I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁹All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.

¹⁹So shall they fear the name of the Lord where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the Lord.

¹⁰Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹³Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

²Great is the Lord in Zion; He is exalted above all the peoples.

⁹For You, O Lord, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

¹⁷All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

¹³Let them praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.

¹⁵Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

²⁵“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

⁶There is none like You, O Lord. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

⁶For who in the skies can compare with the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord?

²⁶“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

¹¹Who among the gods is like You, O Lord? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

⁸O Lord God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty Lord, Your faithfulness surrounds You.

¹⁵For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

⁶Though the Lord is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

⁴The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.

²Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

²Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the Lord. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

¹⁵If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

⁷The Lord sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

⁸He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them He has set the world.

⁵²He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

⁴¹But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

¹¹He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

⁸Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

⁹I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.

²⁴Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done it.’”

⁷He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

⁸And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

⁹Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

⁴¹Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”

¹⁶Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.

¹³Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

¹⁰You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

⁶God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

⁵Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

²²Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

²³and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.

⁵The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

¹“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord.

¹³But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

¹⁴He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,