1sn Psalm 113. The psalmist praises God as the sovereign king of the world who reaches down to help the needy.

2tn Heb “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The extent is not temporal (“from sunrise to sunset”) but spatial (“from the place where the sun rises [the east] to the place where it sets [the west].” In the phenomenological language of OT cosmology, the sun was described as rising in the east and setting in the west.

3tn Heb “above the sky [is] his splendor.”

4tn Heb “the one who makes high to sit.”

5tn Heb “the one who makes low to see.”

6sn The language of v. 7 is almost identical to that of 1 Sam 2:8.

7tn Heb “of the house.”

8tn Heb “sons.”