“1 Hallelujah!Give praise, servants of Yahweh;

praise the name of Yahweh.

2 Let the name of Yahweh be praised

both now and forever.

3 From the rising of the sun to its setting,

let the name of Yahweh be praised.

4 Yahweh is exalted above all the nations,

His glory above the heavens.

5 Who is like Yahweh our God —

the One enthroned on high,

6 who stoops down to look

on the heavens and the earth?

7 He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the garbage pile

8 in order to seat them with nobles —

with the nobles of His people.

9 He gives the childless woman a household,

making her the joyful mother of children.

Hallelujah!”

Psalm 113

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Read this again, a little more slowly.

Read it a third time, considering phrases and individual ideas.

Read it one last time, and use it as a prayer.