Psalm 136

English Standard Version

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever

136 ^(A)Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    ^(B)for his steadfast love endures forever.
²Give thanks to ^(C)the God of gods,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.
³Give thanks to ^(D)the Lord of lords,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;

⁴to him who alone ^(E)does great wonders,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁵to him who ^(F)by understanding ^(G)made the heavens,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁶to him who ^(H)spread out the earth ^(I)above the waters,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁷to him who ^(J)made the great lights,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁸the sun to rule over the day,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁹the moon and stars to rule over the night,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;

¹⁰to him who ^(K)struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹¹and ^(L)brought Israel out from among them,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹²with ^(M)a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹³to him who ^(N)divided the Red Sea in two,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹⁴^(O)and made Israel pass through the midst of it,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹⁵but ^(P)overthrew^[a] Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹⁶to him who ^(Q)led his people through the wilderness,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;

¹⁷to him ^(R)who struck down great kings,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹⁸and killed mighty kings,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
¹⁹Sihon, king of the Amorites,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
²⁰and Og, king of Bashan,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
²¹and gave their land as a heritage,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
²²a heritage to Israel his ^(S)servant,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.

²³It is he who ^(T)remembered us in our low estate,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
²⁴and ^(U)rescued us from our foes,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
²⁵he who ^(V)gives food to all flesh,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.

²⁶Give thanks to ^(W)the God of heaven,
for his steadfast love endures forever.

Footnotes

Psalm 136:15 Hebrew shook off

Acts 6:8-7:6

English Standard Version

Stephen Is Seized

⁸And Stephen, full of grace and ^(A)power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. ¹⁰But ^(B)they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. ¹¹Then ^(C)they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” ¹²And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, ¹³and they ^(D)set up false ^(E)witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against ^(F)this holy place and the law, ¹⁴for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth ^(G)will destroy this place and will ^(H)change ^(I)the customs that Moses delivered to us.” ¹⁵And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face ^(J)was like the face of an angel.

Stephen's Speech

7 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” ²And Stephen said:

^(K)“Brothers and fathers, hear me. ^(L)The God ^(M)of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, ^(N)before he lived in Haran, ³and said to him, ^(O)‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ ⁴^(P)Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And ^(Q)after his father died, ^(R)God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. ⁵Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised ^(S)to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, ^(T)though he had no child. ⁶And God spoke to this effect—that ^(U)his offspring would ^(V)be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them ^(W)four hundred years.