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115.1
PSALMS
- 2Wherefore should the nations say:
- 'Where is now their God?'
- 3But our God is in the heavens;
- Whatsoever pleased Him He hath done.
- 4Their idols are silver and gold,
- The work of men's hands.
- 5They have mouths, but they speak not;
- Eyes have they, but they see not;
- 6They have ears, but they hear not;
- Noses have they, but they smell not;
- 7They have hands, but they handle not;
- Feet have they, but they walk not;
- Neither speak they with their throat.
- 8They that make them shall be like unto them;
- Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
- 9O Israel, trust thou in the Lord!
- He is their help and their shield!
- 10O house of Aaron, trust ye in the Lord!
- He is their help and their shield!
- 11Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
- He is their help and their shield.
- 12The Lord hath been mindful of us, He will bless—
- He will bless the house of Israel;
- He will bless the house of Aaron.
- 13He will bless them that fear the Lord,
- Both small and great.
- 14The Lord increase you more and more,
- You and your children.
- 15Blessed be ye of the Lord
- Who made heaven and earth.
- 16The heavens are the heavens of the Lord;
- But the earth hath He given to the children of men.
- 17The dead praise not the Lord,
- Neither any that go down into silence;
- 18But we will bless the Lord
- From this time forth and for ever.
- Hallelujah.
- 116I love that the Lord should hear
- My voice and my supplications.
- 2Because He hath inclined His ear unto me,
- Therefore will I call upon Him all my days.
- 3The cords of death compassed me,
- And the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me;
- I found trouble and sorrow.
- 4But I called upon the name of the Lord:
- 'I beseech thee, O Lord, deliver my soul.'
- 5Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
- Yea, our God is compassionate.
- 6The Lord preserveth the simple;
- I was brought low, and He saved me.
- 7Return, O my soul, unto Thy rest;
- For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
- 8For thou hast delivered my soul from death,
- Mine eyes from tears,
- And my feet from stumbling.
- 9I shall walk before the Lord
- In the lands of the living.
- 10I trusted even when I spoke:
- 'I am greatly afflicted.'
- 11I said in my haste:
- 'All men are liars.'
- 12How can I repay unto the Lord
- All His bountiful dealings toward me?
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