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112 [a] Praise the Lord!
Great blessings belong to those who fear and respect the Lord,
    who are happy to do what he commands.
Their descendants will be given power on earth.
    Those who do right will be greatly blessed.
Their family will be very rich,
    and their goodness will continue forever.
A light shines in the dark for those who are good,
    for those who are merciful, kind, and fair.
It is good for people to be kind and generous
    and to be fair in business.
Such good people will never fall.
    They will always be remembered.
They will not be afraid of bad news.
    They are confident because they trust in the Lord.
They remain confident and without fear,
    so they defeat their enemies.
They freely give to the poor.
    Their goodness will continue forever.
    They will be honored with victory.
10 The wicked become angry when they see this.
    They grind their teeth in anger, but then they disappear.
    They will never get what they want most.

113 Praise the Lord!
Servants of the Lord, praise him!
    Praise the Lord’s name.
May the Lord’s name be praised
    now and forever.
May the Lord’s name be praised
    from where the sun rises to where it goes down.
The Lord is higher than all nations.
    His glory rises to the skies.
There is no one like the Lord our God.
    He sits on his throne high in heaven.
He is so high above us that he must look down
    to see the sky and the earth.
He lifts the poor out of the dirt
    and rescues beggars from the garbage dump.
He puts them in important positions,
    giving them a place among the leaders of his people.
He gives children to the woman whose home is empty.
    He makes her a happy mother.

Praise the Lord!

114 The people of Israel escaped from Egypt.
    Yes, Jacob’s descendants left that foreign country.
Then Judah became God’s special people,
    and Israel became his kingdom.
The Red Sea saw this and ran away.
    The Jordan River turned and ran.
The mountains danced like rams.
    The hills danced like lambs.

Red Sea, why did you run away?
    Jordan River, why did you turn and run away?
Mountains, why did you dance like rams?
    Hills, why did you dance like lambs?

The earth shook in front of the Lord,
    the God of Jacob.
He is the one who caused water to flow from a rock.
    He made a spring of water flow from that hard rock.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 112:1 Psalm 112 In Hebrew, each line of this psalm begins with the next letter in the alphabet.

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