Psalm 113

Alleluia.

¹ Praise the Lord, ye servants of his, praise, the name of the Lord. ² Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever. ³ From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. ⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens.

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places, ⁶ and yet looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth: ⁷ who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill; ⁸ to set him with princes, even with the princes of his people: ⁹ who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.

Psalm 114

Alleluia.

¹ At the going forth of Israel from Egypt, of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people, ² Judea became his ¹sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. ³ The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

⁵ What ailed thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? and thou Jordan, that thou wast turned back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs? ⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; ⁸ who turned the rock into pools of water, and the ²flint into fountains of water.

Psalm 115

¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name give glory, because of thy mercy and thy truth; ² lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God? ³ But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever he has pleased.

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ⁵ They have a mouth, but they ³cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see: ⁶ they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat. ⁸ Let those that make them become like to them, and all who trust in them.

⁹ The house of Israel trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. ¹⁰ The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. ¹¹ They that fear the Lord trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.

¹² The Lord has remembered us, and blessed us: he has blessed the house of Israel, he has blessed the house of Aaron. ¹³ He has blessed them that fear the Lord, both small and great. ¹⁴ The Lord ⁴add blessings to you and to your children.

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¹⁵ Blessed are ye of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

¹⁶ The heaven of ⁵heavens belongs to the Lord: but he has given the earth to the sons of men. ¹⁷ The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord, nor any that go down to Hades. ¹⁸ But we, the living, will bless the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.