Psalms 115

• 1. Not to us, O LORD, but to you goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness.
• 2. Why let the nations say, "Where is their God?"
• 3. For our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes.
• 4. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
• 5. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
• 6. They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
• 7. or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
• 8. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
• 9. O Israel, trust the LORD! He is your helper; he is your shield.
• 10. O priests of Aaron, trust the LORD! He is your helper; he is your shield.
• 11. All you who fear the LORD, trust the LORD! He is your helper; he is your shield.
• 12. The LORD remembers us, and he will surely bless us. He will bless the people of Israel and the family of Aaron, the priests.
• 13. He will bless those who fear the LORD, both great and small.
• 14. May the LORD richly bless both you and your children.
• 15. May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
• 16. The heavens belong to the LORD, but he has given the earth to all humanity.
• 17. The dead cannot sing praises to the LORD, for they have gone into the silence of the grave.
• 18. But we can praise the LORD both now and forever! Praise the LORD!

Psalms 116

• 1. I love the LORD because he hears and answers my prayers.
• 2. Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I have breath!
• 3. Death had its hands around my throat; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.
• 4. Then I called on the name of the LORD: "Please, LORD, save me!"
• 5. How kind the LORD is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours!
• 6. The LORD protects those of childlike faith; I was facing death, and then he saved me.
• 7. Now I can rest again, for the LORD has been so good to me.
• 8. He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
• 9. And so I walk in the LORD's presence as I live here on earth!
• 10. I believed in you, so I prayed, "I am deeply troubled, LORD."
• 11. In my anxiety I cried out to you, "These people are all liars!"
• 12. What can I offer the LORD for all he has done for me?
• 13. I will lift up a cup symbolizing his salvation; I will praise the LORD's name for saving me.
• 14. I will keep my promises to the LORD in the presence of all his people.
• 15. The LORD's loved ones are precious to him; it grieves him when they die.
• 16. O LORD, I am your servant; yes, I am your servant, the son of your handmaid, and you have freed me from my bonds!
• 17. I will offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
• 18. I will keep my promises to the LORD in the presence of all his people,
• 19. in the house of the LORD, in the heart of Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

New Living Translation: 205 of 324 days.