Psalm 115

To Your Name Give Glory

1 [Isa. 48:11;Ezek. 36:22;Dan. 9:18,19] Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,

See Ps. 36:5for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

2 Why should the nations say,

[Ex. 32:12;Num. 14:13,14]; See Ps. 42:3"Where is their God?"

3 See Ps. 11:4Our God is in the heavens;

Ps. 135:6;Dan. 4:35he does all that he pleases.

4 For ver. 4-8, see Ps. 135:15-18Their idols are silver and gold,

Deut. 4:28;2 Kgs. 19:18;Isa. 37:19;Acts 19:26;See Isa. 44:10-20;Jer. 10:3-5the work of human hands.

5 They have mouths, [Isa. 46:7;Hab. 2:18]but do not speak;

eyes, but do not see.

6 They have ears, but do not hear;

noses, but do not smell.

7 They have hands, but do not feel;

feet, but do not walk;

and they do not make a sound in their throat.

8 [Isa. 44:9]Those who make them become like them;

so do all who trust in them.

9 O [Ps. 118:2-4;135:19,20] Israel,115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of IsraelPs. 37:3;62:8trust in the Lord!

He is their Ps. 33:20help and their shield.

10 O [See ver. 9above] house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!

He is their help and See Ps. 3:3their shield.

11 You Ps. 22:23;103:11,13,17who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!

He is their help and their shield.

12 The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;

he will bless [Ps. 118:2-4;135:19,20]the house of Israel;

he will bless [Ps. 118:2-4;135:19,20]the house of Aaron;

13 he will See Ps. 112:1bless those who fear the Lord,

Jer. 16:6;31:34both the small and the great.

14 May the LordDeut. 1:11give you increase,

you and your children!

15 May See Ruth 2:20you be blessed by the Lord,

Ps. 121:2;124:8;134:3;146:6;Acts 14:15;Rev. 14:7;[Gen. 1:1;14:19;Jer. 10:11]who made heaven and earth!

16 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,

but the earth he has given to the children of man.

17 See Ps. 6:5The dead do not praise the Lord,

nor do any who go down into See Ps. 31:17silence.

18 But Ps. 113:2we will bless the Lord

from this time forth and forevermore.

See Ps. 104:35Praise the Lord!