1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye seruants of the Lord, prayse the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the Name of the Lord from hencefoorth and for euer. 3 The Lordes Name is praysed from the rising of ye sunne, vnto ye going downe of the same. 4 The Lord is high aboue all nations, and his glorie aboue the heauens. 5 Who is like vnto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling on high! 6 Who abaseth himselfe to beholde things in the heauen and in the earth! 7 He raiseth the needie out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of the dung, 8 That he may set him with the princes, euen with the princes of his people. 9 He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.
Psalm 113 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Original 16th-century spelling.
Cross references (9)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ephesians 5:19–20; Psalm 135:1–3; Psalm 135:20; Psalm 134:1; Psalm 33:1–2
- 2 Daniel 2:20; Revelation 5:13; 1 Chronicles 16:36; Psalm 41:13; 1 Chronicles 29:10–13
- 3 Malachi 1:11; Psalm 18:3; Psalm 86:9; Isaiah 59:19; Psalm 48:10
- 4 Psalm 8:1; Psalm 99:2; Psalm 97:9; Isaiah 40:17; Psalm 148:13
- 5 Isaiah 40:25; Jeremiah 10:6; Psalm 89:6; Deuteronomy 33:26; Exodus 15:11
- 6 Isaiah 57:15; Psalm 138:6; Psalm 11:4; Isaiah 6:2; Isaiah 66:2
- 7 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Luke 1:52–53; Psalm 107:41; Job 5:11; 2 Samuel 7:8–9
- 8 Job 36:7; Philippians 2:8–11; Genesis 41:41; Psalm 45:16; Psalm 68:13
- 9 Psalm 68:6; Genesis 21:5–7; Genesis 30:22–23; 1 Samuel 2:5; Isaiah 54:1
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
I believe, brethren, that ye remarked and committed to memory the title of this Psalm. "The conversion," he saith, "of Haggai and Zechariah." These prophets were not as yet in existence, when these verses were sung....But both, the one within a year after the other, began to prophesy that which seemeth to pertain to the restoration of the temple, as …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
In itself, indeed, the glory of the Father could neither be diminished nor enlarged; but without any doubt it was less among men when God was known only in Judea: and as yet children praised not the name of the Lord from the rising of the sun to its going down.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
… the Father could neither be diminished nor enlarged; but without any doubt it was less among men when God was known only in Judea: and as yet children praised not the name of the Lord from the rising of the sun to its going down. But inasmuch as this was effected by the gospel of Christ, to wit, that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)