The Book of Psalms

Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise him!

Everyone should praise Yahweh now and forever!

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

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

There is no one who is like Yahweh, our God, who lives in the highest heaven

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

He lifts poor people up so that they no longer sit in the dirt; he lifts needy people up so that they no longer sit on heaps of ashes

and causes them to be honored by sitting next to leaders, leaders who rule his own people.

He also enables women who have no children to live in their houses as happy as mothers with children. Praise Yahweh!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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