1 Hallelujah!

Give praise, servants of the  Lord;

praise the name of the  Lord.  *

2 Let the name of the  Lord be blessed

both now and forever.  *

3 From the rising of the sun to its setting,

let the name of the  Lord be praised.  *

4 The Lord is exalted above all the nations,  *

his glory above the heavens.  *

5 Who is like the Lord 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 trash heap  *

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!