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Psalms 135

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Psalm 135
A song to praise God
1 Hallelujah! #135:1 ‘Hallelujah’ means ‘praise the Lord.’
Praise the name of the Lord!
Praise him, you servants of the Lord!
2You serve the Lord in his temple.
You serve him in the temple yards.
3The Lord is good, so praise him!
His name is good and great,
so praise him with songs!
4The Lord chose Jacob's family for himself.
Yes, he chose Israel's people to belong to him. #135:4 God gave Jacob a new name, ‘Israel’. So Jacob's family and Israel's people are different ways to talk about God's special people.
5I know that the Lord is great.
Our Lord is greater than any other god.
6He does whatever he decides to do.
He rules the sky and the earth,
and the deepest parts of the sea.
7The Lord causes clouds to rise up all over the earth.
He sends lightning with the storms of rain.
He sends out the wind from its place,
so that it blows where he chooses.
8God destroyed the firstborn sons in Egypt,
both men and animals. #135:8 Verses 8-12 remember how God brought his people out of Egypt and he took them to Canaan. God punished Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, because he would not let the Israelites go free. On the way to Canaan, God destroyed many kings and their people so that the Israelites could arrive in the land.
9He did great miracles in Egypt.
He warned Pharaoh and his officers
that he would punish them.
10He destroyed many nations
and he killed powerful kings.
11He killed Sihon, the king of the Amorites.
He killed Og, the king of Bashan,
and all the other kings of Canaan.
12He gave their land to his people, the Israelites.
The land would belong to them and to their descendants.
13 Lord, people will always remember your name.
You will always be famous.
14The Lord shows that his people are right.
He is kind to those who serve him.
15Other nations make idols with silver and gold.
People worship things that they have made with their hands!
16Their idols have mouths, but they cannot speak!
They have eyes, but they cannot see!
17They have ears, but they cannot hear!
They cannot even breathe!
18The people who made them will become as they are.
Everyone who trusts in idols
will become as useless as their idols are. #135:18 An idol is a false god. People made them from valuable metals, like silver and gold. But these idols cannot do anything! They are dead things. If people worship them, they also become dead.
19Israel's family, praise the Lord!
Descendants of Aaron, praise the Lord!
20Descendants of Levi, praise the Lord!
Everyone who serves the Lord, praise him!
21Everyone in Zion should praise the Lord.
He is the one who has his home in Jerusalem.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

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