Psalms 113

¹When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: ²Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. ³The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. ⁴The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. ⁵What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back? ⁶Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock? ⁷At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob: ⁸Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters. ⁹Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory. ¹⁰For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God? ¹¹But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would. ¹²The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. ¹³They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not. ¹⁴They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not. ¹⁵They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat. ¹⁶Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them. ¹⁷The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. ¹⁸The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. ¹⁹They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. ²⁰The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. ²¹He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great. ²²May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children. ²³Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. ²⁴The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men. ²⁵The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell. ²⁶But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.