Psalms 114-116

Psalm 114

¹When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

²Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

³The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

⁴The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

⁵What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

⁶You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

⁷Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

⁸Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

Psalm 115

¹Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

²Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

³But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

⁴Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

⁵They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

⁶They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

⁷They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

⁸Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

⁹O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

¹¹You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

¹²The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron.

¹³He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.

¹⁴May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

¹⁵May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

¹⁷The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

¹⁸But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.

Psalm 116

¹I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.

²He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

³The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

⁴Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.

⁵The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

⁶The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

⁷Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

⁸You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

⁹I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁰I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;

¹¹Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

¹²What may I give to the Lord for all the good things which he has done for me?

¹³I will take the cup of salvation, and give praise to the name of the Lord.

¹⁴I will make the offering of my oath to the Lord, even before all his people.

¹⁵Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

¹⁶O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

¹⁷I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord.

¹⁸I will make the offerings of my oath, even before all his people;

¹⁹In the Lord's house, even in Jerusalem. Praise be to the Lord.