Psalm 115

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To Your Name Give Glory

115 ^(A)Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
^(B)for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

²Why should the nations say,
^(C)“Where is their God?”
³^(D)Our God is in the heavens;
^(E)he does all that he pleases.

⁴^(F)Their idols are silver and gold,
    ^(G)the work of human hands.
⁵They have mouths, ^(H)but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
⁶They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
⁷They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
⁸^(I)Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

⁹O ^(J)Israel,^[a] ^(K)trust in the Lord!
    He is their ^(L)help and their shield.
¹⁰O ^(M)house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and ^(N)their shield.
¹¹You ^(O)who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹²The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;
    he will bless ^(P)the house of Israel;
    he will bless ^(Q)the house of Aaron;
¹³he will ^(R)bless those who fear the Lord,
    ^(S)both the small and the great.

¹⁴May the Lord ^(T)give you increase,
you and your children!
¹⁵May ^(U)you be blessed by the Lord,
^(V)who made heaven and earth!

¹⁶The heavens are the Lord's heavens,
    but the earth he has given to the children of man.
¹⁷^(W)The dead do not praise the Lord,
    nor do any who go down into ^(X)silence.
¹⁸But ^(Y)we will bless the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.
^(Z)Praise the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of Israel

Isaiah 31:4-5

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⁴For thus the Lord said to me,
^(A)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
^(B)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight^[a] on Mount Zion and on its hill.
⁵^(C)Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”

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Footnotes

Isaiah 31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike

Zechariah 12:2-4

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²“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem ^(A)a cup of staggering to ^(B)all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem ^(C)will also be against Judah. ³^(D)On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. ^(E)All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And ^(F)all the nations of the earth will gather against it. ⁴^(G)On that day, declares the Lord, ^(H)I will strike every horse ^(I)with panic, and its rider ^(J)with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples ^(K)with blindness.

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Zechariah 12:8-9

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⁸^(A)On that day ^(B)the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that ^(C)the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, ^(D)like the angel of the Lord, going before them. ⁹^(E)And on that day ^(F)I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.