Psalm 135

¹ The Lord praise, praise ye the Lord’s name:

the Lord’s servants O praise him ye.

² That in the Lord’s house stand: the same

i’th courts of our God’s house who be.

³ The Lord praise, for the Lord is good:

for sweet it’s to his name to sing.

⁴ For Jacob to him chose hath God:

and Isr’el for his precious thing.

⁵ For that the Lord is great I know:

and over all gods, our Lord keeps.

⁶ All that he wills, the Lord doth do:

in heaven, earth, seas, and all deeps.

⁷ The vapours he doth them constrain,

forth from the ends of th’ earth to rise;

he maketh lightning for the rain:

the wind brings from his treasuries.

⁸ Of Egypt he the firstborn smit:

and that of man, of beasts also.

⁹ Sent wondrous signs midst thee, Egypt:

on Pharaoh, on all’s servants too.

¹⁰ Who smote great nations, slew great kings:

¹¹ Slew Sihon king of th’ Amorites,

Og also one of Bashan’s kings:

all kingdoms of the Canaanites:

¹² And gave their land an heritage:

his people Isr’el’s lot to fall.

¹³ For aye thy name, Lord, through each age,

O Lord, is thy memorial.

¹⁴ For his folk’s judge, the Lord is he:

and of his servants he’ll repent.

¹⁵ The heathen’s idols silver be,

and gold: men’s hands did them invent.

¹⁶ Mouths have they, yet they never spake:

eyes have they, but they do not see:

¹⁷ Ears have they, but no hearing take:

and in their mouth no breathings be.

¹⁸ They that them make, have their likeness:

that trust in them so is each one.

¹⁹ The Lord, O house of Isr’el bless;

the Lord bless, thou house of Aaron.