Psalm 135

¹Praise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord!

Praise him, you who serve the Lord,

²you who serve in the house of the Lord,

in the courts of the house of our God.

³Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;

celebrate his lovely name with music.

⁴For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,

Israel for his own special treasure.

⁵I know the greatness of the Lord—

that our Lord is greater than any other god.

⁶The Lord does whatever pleases him

throughout all heaven and earth,

and on the seas and in their depths.

⁷He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth.

He sends the lightning with the rain

and releases the wind from his storehouses.

⁸He destroyed the firstborn in each Egyptian home,

both people and animals.

⁹He performed miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt

against Pharaoh and all his people.

¹⁰He struck down great nations

and slaughtered mighty kings—

¹¹Sihon king of the Amorites,

Og king of Bashan,

and all the kings of Canaan.

¹²He gave their land as an inheritance,

a special possession to his people Israel.

¹³Your name, O Lord, endures forever;

your fame, O Lord, is known to every generation.

¹⁴For the Lord will give justice to his people

and have compassion on his servants.

¹⁵The idols of the nations are merely things of silver and gold,

shaped by human hands.

¹⁶They have mouths but cannot speak,

and eyes but cannot see.

¹⁷They have ears but cannot hear,

and mouths but cannot breathe.

¹⁸And those who make idols are just like them,

as are all who trust in them.

¹⁹O Israel, praise the Lord!

O priests—descendants of Aaron—praise the Lord!

²⁰O Levites, praise the Lord!

All you who fear the Lord, praise the Lord!

²¹The Lord be praised from Zion,

for he lives here in Jerusalem.

Praise the Lord!