Psalm 135

¹Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.

²Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim His salvation day after day.

¹⁷I will thank the Lord for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

¹Rejoice in the Lord, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

¹Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song—His praise in the assembly of the godly.

²Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

¹Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commandments.

¹⁹in the courts of the Lord’s house, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!

¹³Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

³⁷and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

⁸Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering and enter His courts.

³⁷So David left Asaph and his associates there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to minister there regularly according to the daily requirements,

³⁸along with Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.

³⁰They were also to stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the Lord, and likewise in the evening.

¹Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!

⁶⁸You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

¹Rejoice in the Lord, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.

⁷They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

⁸The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

¹⁷“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹⁵Yet the Lord has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

⁶For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

⁷The Lord did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

¹⁷“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

¹⁰“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the Lord.

¹¹“On that day many nations will join themselves to the Lord, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you.

⁹But the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

³For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.

¹⁷For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

⁹For You, O Lord, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

²⁶I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.

²⁷He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

⁸O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.

⁹All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.

³Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.

³⁵All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

²⁶“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

²⁷The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”

⁹For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

¹⁰I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

¹³When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

¹⁶When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

²⁵When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

²⁶when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

¹Ask the Lord for rain in springtime; the Lord makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.

⁸The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

⁸lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

⁵¹He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

¹²On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

³⁶Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

¹⁵And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

¹⁰He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.

²⁹Now at midnight the Lord struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

³⁰During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

¹⁵but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.

²²Before our eyes the Lord inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

¹⁰You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

¹⁰Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

³⁴Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

⁴³when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

¹⁷He struck down great kings His loving devotion endures forever.

¹⁸and slaughtered mighty kings—His loving devotion endures forever.

²With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

³For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

²⁴And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

⁷And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

⁸the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

²²You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

⁷When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

³⁰But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

²¹Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

²²“Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

¹Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

²So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

⁵⁵He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

²¹and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.

²²a heritage to His servant Israel. His loving devotion endures forever.

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

²With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

⁵⁴And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

⁷And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

²³So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

¹²But You, O Lord, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

¹⁵God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

¹⁷May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

⁹O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

¹A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the Lord forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.

³⁶For the Lord will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

²So he prayed to the Lord, saying, “O Lord, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

⁴He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

⁸The Lord judges the peoples; vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and integrity.

⁶So the Lord relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord God.

¹⁶So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

⁵They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

¹⁸What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

¹⁹Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

³For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

⁴They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

¹⁹They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

²⁹Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

⁹All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

¹⁰Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

¹⁴In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

¹⁵For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

¹⁰Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

⁸Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

⁴The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

⁸But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

¹⁸They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

¹⁹And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

⁷All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

⁹O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their help and shield.

¹⁰All You have made will give You thanks, O Lord, and Your saints will bless You.

¹Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

²Let Israel say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”

¹⁴He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!

¹⁹He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

²⁰He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

⁵Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God, all you who serve Him, and those who fear Him, small and great alike!”

³May the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

¹³For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

¹⁴“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

⁶But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

²His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.

⁵May the Lord bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,