113 Praise Jah, YOU people!+
Offer praise, O YOU servants of Jehovah,+
Praise the name of Jehovah.+
2 May Jehovah’s name become blessed+
From now on and to time indefinite.+
3 From the rising of the sun until its setting+
Jehovah’s name is to be praised.+
4 Jehovah has become high above all the nations;+
His glory is above the heavens.+
5 Who is like Jehovah our God,+
Him who is making his dwelling on high?+
6 He is condescending to look on heaven and earth,+
7 Raising up the lowly one from the very dust;+
He exalts the poor one from the ashpit itself,+
8 To make [him] sit with nobles,+
With the nobles of his people.+
9 He is causing the barren woman to dwell in a house+
As a joyful mother of sons.+
Praise Jah, YOU people!+
114 When Israel went forth from Egypt,+
The house of Jacob from a people speaking unintelligibly,+
2 Judah became his holy place,+
Israel his grand dominion.+
3 The sea itself saw and took to flight;+
As for the Jordan, it began to turn back.+
4 The mountains themselves skipped about like rams,+
The hills like lambs.
5 What was the matter with you, O sea, that you took to flight,+
O Jordan, that you began to turn back?+
6 O mountains, that YOU went skipping about like rams;+
O hills, like lambs?+
7 Because of the Lord be in severe pains, O earth,+
Because of the God of Jacob,
8 Who is changing the rock into a reedy pool of water,+
A flinty rock into a spring of water.+
115 To us belongs nothing, O Jehovah, to us belongs nothing,+
But to your name give glory+
According to your loving-kindness, according to your trueness.+
2 Why should the nations say:+
“Where, now, is their God?”+
3 But our God is in the heavens;+
Everything that he delighted [to do] he has done.+
4 Their idols are silver and gold,+
The work of the hands of earthling man.+
5 A mouth they have, but they cannot speak;+
Eyes they have, but they cannot see;+
6 Ears they have, but they cannot hear.+
A nose they have, but they cannot smell.+
7 Hands are theirs, but they cannot feel.+
Feet are theirs, but they cannot walk;+
They utter no sound with their throat.+
8 Those making them will become just like them,+
All those who are trusting in them.+
9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah;+
He is their help and their shield.+
10 O house of Aaron, put YOUR trust in Jehovah;+
He is their help and their shield.+
11 YOU that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah;+
He is their help and their shield.+
12 Jehovah himself has remembered us; he will bless,+
He will bless the house of Israel,+
He will bless the house of Aaron.+
13 He will bless those fearing Jehovah,+
The small ones as well as the great ones.+
14 Jehovah will give increase to YOU,+
To YOU and to YOUR sons.+
15 YOU are the ones blessed by Jehovah,+
The Maker of heaven and earth.+
16 As regards the heavens, to Jehovah the heavens belong,+
But the earth he has given to the sons of men.+
17 The dead themselves do not praise Jah,+
Nor do any going down into silence.+
18 But we ourselves will bless Jah+
From now on and to time indefinite.+
Praise Jah, YOU people!+
116 I do love, because Jehovah hears+
My voice, my entreaties.+
2 For he has inclined his ear to me,+
And throughout my days I shall call.+
3 The ropes of death encircled me+
And the distressing circumstances of Sheʹol themselves found me.+
Distress and grief I kept finding.+
4 But upon the name of Jehovah I proceeded to call:+
“Ah, Jehovah, do provide my soul with escape!”+
5 Jehovah is gracious and righteous;+
And our God is One showing mercy.+
6 Jehovah is guarding the inexperienced ones.+
I was impoverished, and he proceeded to save even me.+
7 Return to your resting-place, O my soul,+
For Jehovah himself has acted appropriately toward you.+
8 For you have rescued my soul from death,+
My eye from tears, my foot from stumbling.+
9 I will walk+ before Jehovah in the lands of those living.+
10 I had faith,+ for I proceeded to speak.+
I myself was very much afflicted.
11 I, for my part, said, when I became panicky:+
“Every man is a liar.”+
12 What shall I repay to Jehovah+
For all his benefits to me?+
13 The cup of grand salvation+ I shall take up,
And on the name of Jehovah I shall call.+
14 My vows I shall pay to Jehovah,+
Yes, in front of all his people.
15 Precious in the eyes of Jehovah
Is the death of his loyal ones.+
16 Ah, now, O Jehovah,+
For I am your servant.+
I am your servant, the son of your slave girl.+
You have loosened my bands.+
17 To you I shall offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving,+
And on the name of Jehovah I shall call.+
18 My vows I shall pay to Jehovah,+
Yes, in front of all his people,+
19 In the courtyards of the house of Jehovah,+
In the midst of you, O Jerusalem.+
Praise Jah, YOU people!+
117 Praise Jehovah, all YOU nations;+
Commend him, all YOU clans.+
2 For toward us his loving-kindness has proved mighty;+
And the trueness+ of Jehovah is to time indefinite.
Praise Jah, YOU people!+
118 Give thanks to Jehovah, YOU people, for he is good;+
For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite.+
2 Let Israel now say:
“For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite.”+
3 Let those of the house of Aaron now say:+
“For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite.”+
4 Let those fearing Jehovah now say:+
“For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite.”+
5 Out of the distressing circumstances I called upon Jah;+
Jah answered [and put] me into a roomy place.+
6 Jehovah is on my side; I shall not fear.+
What can earthling man do to me?+
7 Jehovah is on my side among those helping me,+
So that I myself shall look upon those hating me.+
8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah+
Than to trust in earthling man.+
9 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah+
Than to trust in nobles.+
10 All the nations themselves surrounded me.+
It was in the name of Jehovah that I kept holding them off.+
11 They surrounded me, yes, they had me surrounded.+
It was in the name of Jehovah that I kept holding them off.
12 They surrounded me like bees;+
They were extinguished like a fire of thornbushes.+
It was in the name of Jehovah that I kept holding them off.+
13 You pushed me hard that I should fall,+
But Jehovah himself helped me.+
14 Jah is my shelter and [my] might,+
And to me he becomes salvation.+
15 The voice of a joyful cry and salvation+
Is in the tents+ of the righteous ones.+
The right hand of Jehovah is demonstrating vital energy.+
16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalting [itself];+
The right hand of Jehovah is demonstrating vital energy.+
17 I shall not die, but I shall keep living,+
That I may declare the works of Jah.+
18 Jah corrected me severely,+
But he did not give me over to death itself.+
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness,+ YOU people.
I shall go into them; I shall laud Jah.+
20 This is the gate of Jehovah.+
The righteous themselves will go into it.+
21 I shall laud you, for you answered me+
And you came to be my salvation.+
22 The stone that the builders rejected+
Has become the head of the corner.+
23 This has come to be from Jehovah himself;+
It is wonderful in our eyes.+
24 This is the day that Jehovah has made;+
We will be joyful and rejoice in it.+
25 Ah, now, Jehovah, do save, please!+
Ah, now, Jehovah, do grant success, please!+
26 Blessed be the One coming in the name of Jehovah;+
We have blessed YOU people out of the house of Jehovah.+
27 Jehovah is the Divine One,+
And he gives us light.+
Bind the festival procession+ with boughs,+ O YOU people,
As far as the horns of the altar.+
28 You are my Divine One, and I shall laud you;+
My God—I shall exalt you.+
29 Give thanks to Jehovah, YOU people, for he is good;+
For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite.+