Psalms 135

• 1. Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD! Praise him, you who serve the LORD,
• 2. you who serve in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.
• 3. Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; celebrate his wonderful name with music.
• 4. For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own special treasure.
• 5. I know the greatness of the LORD--that our Lord is greater than any other god.
• 6. The LORD does whatever pleases him throughout all heaven and earth, and on the seas and in their depths.
• 7. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
• 8. He destroyed the firstborn in each Egyptian home, both people and animals.
• 9. He performed miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt; Pharaoh and all his people watched.
• 10. He struck down great nations and slaughtered mighty kings--
• 11. Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
• 12. He gave their land as an inheritance, a special possession to his people Israel.
• 13. Your name, O LORD, endures forever; your fame, O LORD, is known to every generation.
• 14. For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
• 15. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
• 16. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
• 17. They cannot hear with their ears or smell with their noses.
• 18. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
• 19. O Israel, praise the LORD! O priests of Aaron, praise the LORD!
• 20. O Levites, praise the LORD! All you who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!
• 21. The LORD be praised from Zion, for he lives here in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

Psalms 136

• 1. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
• 2. Give thanks to the God of gods. His faithful love endures forever.
• 3. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His faithful love endures forever.
• 4. Give thanks to him who alone does mighty miracles. His faithful love endures forever.
• 5. Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully. His faithful love endures forever.
• 6. Give thanks to him who placed the earth on the water. His faithful love endures forever.
• 7. Give thanks to him who made the heavenly lights--His faithful love endures forever.
• 8. the sun to rule the day, His faithful love endures forever.
• 9. and the moon and stars to rule the night. His faithful love endures forever.
• 10. Give thanks to him who killed the firstborn of Egypt. His faithful love endures forever.
• 11. He brought Israel out of Egypt. His faithful love endures forever.
• 12. He acted with a strong hand and powerful arm. His faithful love endures forever.
• 13. Give thanks to him who parted the Red Sea. His faithful love endures forever.
• 14. He led Israel safely through, His faithful love endures forever.
• 15. but he hurled Pharaoh and his army into the sea. His faithful love endures forever.
• 16. Give thanks to him who led his people through the wilderness. His faithful love endures forever.
• 17. Give thanks to him who struck down mighty kings. His faithful love endures forever.
• 18. He killed powerful kings--His faithful love endures forever.
• 19. Sihon king of the Amorites, His faithful love endures forever.
• 20. and Og king of Bashan. His faithful love endures forever.
• 21. God gave the land of these kings as an inheritance--His faithful love endures forever.
• 22. a special possession to his servant Israel. His faithful love endures forever.
• 23. He remembered our utter weakness. His faithful love endures forever.
• 24. He saved us from our enemies. His faithful love endures forever.
• 25. He gives food to every living thing. His faithful love endures forever.
• 26. Give thanks to the God of heaven. His faithful love endures forever.

Psalms 137

• 1. Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we thought of Jerusalem.
• 2. We put away our lyres, hanging them on the branches of the willow trees.
• 3. For there our captors demanded a song of us. Our tormentors requested a joyful hymn: "Sing us one of those songs of Jerusalem!"
• 4. But how can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
• 5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill upon the harp.
• 6. May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I don't make Jerusalem my highest joy.
• 7. O LORD, remember what the Edomites did on the day the armies of Babylon captured Jerusalem. "Destroy it!" they yelled. "Level it to the ground!"
• 8. O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
• 9. Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!

New Living Translation: 213 of 324 days.