Psalm 135

¹Praise 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.

³Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; celebrate his lovely name with music. ⁴ For 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. 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 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. ⁹ He performed miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his people. 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.

¹³Your name, O LORD, endures forever; your fame, O LORD, is known to every generation. ¹⁴ For 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. ¹⁶ They have mouths but cannot speak, and eyes but cannot see. ¹⁷ They have ears but cannot hear, and noses but cannot smell. ¹⁸ And 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! 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!