Psalms 135

¹ Praise the LORD. Praise the name of the LORD, give praise, O servants of the LORD,

² you that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God!

³ Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for he is gracious!

⁴ For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

⁵ For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

⁶ Whatever the LORD pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

⁷ He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

⁸ He it was who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast;

⁹ who in thy midst, O Egypt, sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants;

¹⁰ who smote many nations and slew mighty kings,

¹¹ Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

¹² and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.

¹³ Thy name, O LORD, endures for ever, thy renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.

¹⁴ For the LORD will vindicate his people, and have compassion on his servants.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹⁶ They have mouths, but they speak not, they have eyes, but they see not,

¹⁷ they have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths.

¹⁸ Like them be those who make them!-- yea, every one who trusts in them!

¹⁹ O house of Israel, bless the LORD! O house of Aaron, bless the LORD!

²⁰ O house of Levi, bless the LORD! You that fear the LORD, bless the LORD!

²¹ Blessed be the LORD from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!