Psalms 115
115
The Only True Hero
1God, glorify your name!
Yes, your name alone be glorified, not ours.
For you are the one who loves us passionately,
and you are faithful and true.
2Why should the unbelievers mock us, saying,
“Where is this God of yours?”
3But we know our God rules from the heavens,
and he takes delight in all that he does.
4The unbelievers worship what they make—
their wealth and their work.
5-8They idolize what they own
and what they make with their hands,
but their things can’t talk to them or answer their prayers.
Their possessions will never satisfy.
Their futile faith in dead idols and dead works
can never bring life or meaning to their souls.
Blind men can only create blind things.
Those deaf to God can only make a deaf image. # 115:5–8 Referring to the idols, the literal Hebrew could be translated “With mouths, but they cannot speak; with eyes, but they cannot see; with ears, but they cannot hear; with noses, but they cannot smell; with hands, but they cannot feel; with feet, but they cannot walk. Those who make them will become like them and everyone who trusts in them.”
Dead men can only create dead idols.
And everyone who trusts in these powerless, dead things
will be just like what they worship—powerless and dead.
9So trust in the Lord, all his people.
For he is the only true hero,
the wraparound God who is our shield!
10You, his priests, trust in the Lord.
For he is the only true hero,
God-wrapped-around-us as our shield.
11Yes, all his lovers who bow before him, trust in the Lord.
For he is our only true hero,
God-wrapped-around-us as our shield.
12The Lord will never forget us in our need; he will bless us indeed!
He will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron, his priest.
13Yes! He will bless his devoted lovers who bow before him,
no matter who they are.
14-15God himself will fill you with more.
Blessings upon blessings will be heaped upon you
and upon your children from the maker of heaven and earth,
the very God who made you!
16The heavens belong to our God; they are his alone,
but he has given us # 115:16 Or “Adam’s sons.” the earth and put us in charge.
17-18Dead people cannot praise the Lord, but we can!
Those who sink to the silence of the grave
can no longer give glory to God, but we can!
So let’s praise the Lord and let it go on forever.
Hallelujah, and praise the Lord!
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115
1Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Thy name give honour, For Thy kindness, for Thy truth.
2Why do the nations say, ‘Where, pray, [is] their God.
3And our God [is] in the heavens, All that He hath pleased He hath done.
4Their idols [are] silver and gold, work of man's hands,
5A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,
6Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not,
7Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;
8Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.
9O Israel, trust in Jehovah, ‘Their help and their shield [is] He.’
10O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah, ‘Their help and their shield [is] He.’
11Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah, ‘Their help and their shield [is] He.’
12 Jehovah hath remembered us, He blesseth, He blesseth the house of Israel, He blesseth the house of Aaron,
13He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great.
14 Jehovah addeth to you, to you, and to your sons.
15Blessed [are] ye of Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,
16The heavens — the heavens [are] Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,
17The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.
18And we, we bless Jah, From henceforth, and unto the age. Praise ye Jah!
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