Psalm 113

Laudate, pueri
1
Hallelujah!
Give praise, you servants of the Lord; *
praise the Name of the Lord.
2
Let the Name of the Lord be blessed, *
from this time forth for evermore.
3
From the rising of the sun to its going down *
let the Name of the Lord be praised.
4
The Lord is high above all nations, *
and his glory above the heavens.
5
Who is like the Lord our God, who sits enthroned on high *
but stoops to behold the heavens and the earth?
6
He takes up the weak out of the dust *
and lifts up the poor from the ashes.
7
He sets them with the princes, *
with the princes of his people.
8
He makes the woman of a childless house *
to be a joyful mother of children.

Psalm 114

In exitu Israel
1
Hallelujah!
When Israel came out of Egypt, *
the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,
2
Judah became God’s sanctuary *
and Israel his dominion.
3
The sea beheld it and fled; *
Jordan turned and went back.
4
The mountains skipped like rams, *
and the little hills like young sheep.
5
What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? *
O Jordan, that you turned back?
6
You mountains, that you skipped like rams? *
you little hills like young sheep?
7
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, *
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
Who turned the hard rock into a pool of water *
and flint-stone into a flowing spring.