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Psalms 113

1 An exhortation to praise the Lord for his providence, 7 In that that contrary to the course of nature he worketh in his Church.
¶ Praise ye the Lord.
1.Praise, ô ye servants of the Lord, apraise the Name of the Lord.
2.Blessed be the Name of the Lord from hence forth and for ever.
3.The Lord’s Name is praised from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same.
4.The Lord is high above bnations, and his glory above the heavens.
5.Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hathe his dwelling on high!
6.Who abaseth him self to behold things in the heaven and in the earth.
7.He raiseth the needy out of the dust, and lifteth up the cpoor out of the dung,
8.That he may set him with the princes, even with the princes of his people.
9.He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a family, and a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

Notes

1-*.
Ex. 14.21.
1-a.
By this often repetition he stirs up our cold dullness to praise God, seeing his works are so wonderful, and that we are created for the same cause.
1-a-1.
That is, from them that were of a strange language.
2-b.
The whole people were witnesses of his holy majesty, in adopting them, and of his mighty power in delivering them.
4-b.
If God’s glory shine through all the world, and therefore of all ought to be praised, what great condemnation were it to his people, among whom chiefly it shines, if they should not earnestly extol his Name?
4-c.
Seeing that these dead creatures felt God’s power, and after a sort saw it, much more his people ought to consider it and glorify him for the same.
7-c.
By preferring the poor to high honour, and giving the barren children, he shows that God works not only in his Church by ordinary means, but also by miracles.
7-e.
Ought then his people to be insensible, when they see his power and majesty?
8-e.
That is, caused miraculously water to come out of the rock in most abundance, Ex. 17.6.