1 Praise Yah!
Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
praise Yahweh’s name.
2 Blessed be Yahweh’s name,
from this time forward and forever more.
3 From the rising of the sun to its going down,
Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
4 Yahweh is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like Yahweh, our God,
who has his seat on high,
6 who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
7 He raises up the poor out of the dust,
and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
8 that he may set him with princes,
even with the princes of his people.
9 He settles the barren woman in her home
as a joyful mother of children.
Praise Yah!
1 Halleluja! Loof, o knegte van die HERE, loof die Naam van die HERE!
2 Laat die Naam van die HERE geprys word, van nou af tot in ewigheid!
3 Van die opgang van die son tot by sy ondergang moet die Naam van die HERE geloof word!
4 Die HERE is hoog bo al die nasies; bo die hemele is sy heerlikheid.
5 Wie is soos die HERE onse God, wat hoog woon,
6 wat laag neersien, in die hemel en op die aarde?
7 Wat die geringe uit die stof oprig, die behoeftige van die ashoop af verhef;
8 om hom te laat sit by die edeles, by die edeles van sy volk.
9 Wat die onvrugbare van die huis laat woon -- 'n blye moeder van kinders. Halleluja!