King James Version

Psalms 113:6

Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

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הַֽמַּשְׁפִּילִ֥יhamashpilithe abaseשָׁפֵלdefinite article, verb, hiphil, participle, construct — “the abase”, a verb used as a describing wordH8213to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).לִרְא֑וֹתlirotto seeרָאָהpreposition, verb, qal, infinitive construct — “to see”, the to-form of the verbH7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)advise self, appear, approve, behold, [idiom] certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), m…בַּשָּׁמַ֥יִםbashamayimin heavenשָׁמַיִםpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “in heaven”, the ordinary formH8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).וּבָאָֽרֶץuvaaretsand in earthאֶרֶץconjunction, preposition, with the article, noun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “and in earth”, the ordinary formH776the earth (at large, or partitively a land)[idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

That looketh down low upon heaven and upon the earth?

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American Standard Version (1901)

That humbleth himself to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?

Young’s Literal Translation

He is humbling [Himself] to look On the heavens and on the earth.

World English Bible

who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?

Darby Translation

Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth?

Douay-Rheims

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

That looketh down low upon heaven and upon the earth?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

and yet looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth:

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

καὶ τὰ ταπεινὰ ἐφορῶν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, καὶ ἐν τῇ γῇ·