Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 Not to us, LORD, not to us, But to your name give glory, For your lovingkindness, and for your truth's sake.
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Not for our sake, God, no, not for our sake, but for your name's sake, show your glory. Do it on account of your merciful love, do it on account of your faithful ways.
2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
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Do it so none of the nations can say, "Where now, oh where is their God?"
3 But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
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Our God is in heaven doing whatever he wants to do.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
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Their gods are metal and wood, handmade in a basement shop:
5 They have mouths, but they don't speak; They have eyes, but they don't see;
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Carved mouths that can't talk, painted eyes that can't see,
6 They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell;
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Tin ears that can't hear, molded noses that can't smell,
7 They have hands, but they don't feel; They have feet, but they don't walk; Neither do they speak through their throat.
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Hands that can't grasp, feet that can't walk or run, throats that never utter a sound.
8 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
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Those who make them have become just like them, have become just like the gods they trust.
9 Yisra'el, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
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But you, Israel: put your trust in God! - trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!
10 House of Aharon, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
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Clan of Aaron, trust in God! - trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
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You who fear God, trust in God! - trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!
12 The LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Yisra'el. He will bless the house of Aharon.
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O God, remember us and bless us, bless the families of Israel and Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, Both small and great.
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And let God bless all who fear God - bless the small, bless the great.
14 May the LORD increase you more and more, You and your children.
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Oh, let God enlarge your families - giving growth to you, growth to your children.
15 Blessed are you by the LORD, Who made heaven and eretz.
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May you be blessed by God, by God, who made heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD; But the eretz has he given to the children of men.
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The heaven of heavens is for God, but he put us in charge of the earth.
17 The dead don't praise the LORD, Neither any who go down into silence;
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Dead people can't praise God - not a word to be heard from those buried in the ground.
18 But we will bless the LORD, From this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD!
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But we bless God, oh yes - we bless him now, we bless him always! Hallelujah!
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