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Psalms 133

1 Look at how good and pleasing it is when families live together as one!
2 It is like expensive oil poured over the head, running down onto the beard— Aaron's beard!— which extended over the collar of his robes.
3 It is like the dew on Mount Hermon streaming down onto the mountains of Zion, because it is there that the LORD has commanded the blessing: everlasting life.
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Psalms 134

1 All you who serve the LORD: bless the LORD right now! All you who minister in the LORD's house at night: bless God!
2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
3 May the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
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Psalms 135

1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD's name! All you who serve the LORD, praise God!
2 All you who stand in the LORD's house— who stand in the courtyards of our God's temple—
3 praise the LORD, because the LORD is good! Sing praises to God's name because it is beautiful!
4 Because the LORD chose Jacob as his own, God chose Israel as his treasured possession.
5 Yes, I know for certain that the LORD is great— I know our Lord is greater than all other gods.
6 The LORD can do whatever he wants in heaven or on earth, in the seas and in every ocean depth.
7 God forms clouds at the far corners of the earth. God makes lightning for the rain. God releases the wind from its storeroom.
8 God struck down the Egyptians' oldest offspring— both human and animal!
9 God sent signs and wonders into the very center of Egypt— against Pharaoh and all his servants.
10 God struck down many nations and killed mighty kings:
11 Sihon the Amorite king, Og the king of Bashan, and all the Canaanite kings.
12 Then God handed their land over as an inheritance— as an inheritance to Israel, his own people.
13 LORD, your name is forever! LORD, your fame extends from one generation to the next!
14 The LORD gives justice to his people and has compassion on those who serve him.
15 The nations' idols are just silver and gold— things made by human hands.
16 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.
17 They have ears, but they can't listen. No, there's no breath in their lungs!
18 Let the people who made these idols and all who trust in them become just like them!
19 House of Israel, bless the LORD! House of Aaron, bless the LORD!
20 House of Levi, bless the LORD! You who honor the LORD, bless the LORD!
21 Bless the LORD from Zion— bless the one who lives in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!
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Psalms 136

1 Give thanks to the LORD because he is good. God's faithful love lasts forever!
2 Give thanks to the God of all gods— God's faithful love lasts forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of all lords— God's faithful love lasts forever.
4 Give thanks to the only one who makes great wonders— God's faithful love lasts forever.
5 Give thanks to the one who made the skies with skill— God's faithful love lasts forever.
6 Give thanks to the one who shaped the earth on the water— God's faithful love lasts forever.
7 Give thanks to the one who made the great lights— God's faithful love lasts forever.
8 The sun to rule the day— God's faithful love lasts forever.
9 The moon and the stars to rule the night— God's faithful love lasts forever!
10 Give thanks to the one who struck down the Egyptians' oldest offspring— God's faithful love lasts forever.
11 Give thanks to the one who brought Israel out of there— God's faithful love lasts forever.
12 With a strong hand and outstretched arm— God's faithful love lasts forever!
13 Give thanks to the one who split the Reed Sea in two— God's faithful love lasts forever.
14 Give thanks to the one who brought Israel through— God's faithful love lasts forever.
15 And tossed Pharaoh and his army into the Reed Sea— God's faithful love lasts forever!
16 Give thanks to the one who led his people through the desert— God's faithful love lasts forever.
17 Give thanks to the one who struck down great kings— God's faithful love lasts forever.
18 And killed powerful kings— God's faithful love lasts forever.
19 Sihon, the Amorite king— God's faithful love lasts forever.
20 Og, king of Bashan— God's faithful love lasts forever.
21 Handing their land over as an inheritance— God's faithful love lasts forever.
22 As an inheritance to Israel, his servant— God's faithful love lasts forever!
23 God remembered us when we were humiliated— God's faithful love lasts forever.
24 God rescued us from our enemies— God's faithful love lasts forever.
25 God is the one who provides food for all living things— God's faithful love lasts forever!
26 Give thanks to the God of heaven— God's faithful love lasts forever!
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Psalms 137

1 Alongside Babylon's streams, there we sat down, crying because we remembered Zion.
2 We hung our lyres up in the trees there
3 because that's where our captors asked us to sing; our tormentors requested songs of joy: "Sing us a song about Zion!" they said.
4 But how could we possibly sing the LORD's song on foreign soil?
5 Jerusalem! If I forget you, let my strong hand wither!
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't make Jerusalem my greatest joy.
7 LORD, remember what the Edomites did on Jerusalem's dark day: "Rip it down, rip it down! All the way to its foundations!" they yelled.
8 Daughter Babylon, you destroyer, a blessing on the one who pays you back the very deed you did to us!
9 A blessing on the one who seizes your children and smashes them against the rock!
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Psalms 138

1 I give thanks to you with all my heart, LORD. I sing your praise before all other gods.
2 I bow toward your holy temple and thank your name for your loyal love and faithfulness because you have made your name and word greater than everything else.
3 On the day I cried out, you answered me. You encouraged me with inner strength.
4 Let all the earth's rulers give thanks to you, LORD, when they hear what you say.
5 Let them sing about the LORD's ways because the LORD's glory is so great!
6 Even though the LORD is high, he can still see the lowly, but God keeps his distance from the arrogant.
7 Whenever I am in deep trouble, you make me live again; you send your power against my enemies' wrath; you save me with your strong hand.
8 The LORD will do all this for my sake. Your faithful love lasts forever, LORD! Don't let go of what your hands have made.
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Psalms 139

1 LORD, you have examined me. You know me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up. Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
3 You study my traveling and resting. You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
4 There isn't a word on my tongue, LORD, that you don't already know completely.
5 You surround me—front and back. You put your hand on me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me; it's so high above me that I can't fathom it.
7 Where could I go to get away from your spirit? Where could I go to escape your presence?
8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there. If I went down to the grave, you would be there too!
9 If I could fly on the wings of dawn, stopping to rest only on the far side of the ocean—
10 even there your hand would guide me; even there your strong hand would hold me tight!
11 If I said, "The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,"
12 even then the darkness isn't too dark for you! Nighttime would shine bright as day, because darkness is the same as light to you!
13 You are the one who created my innermost parts; you knit me together while I was still in my mother's womb.
14 I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart. Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
15 My bones weren't hidden from you when I was being put together in a secret place, when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo, and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me, before any one of them had yet happened.
17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me! Their total number is countless!
18 If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand! If I came to the very end—I'd still be with you.
19 If only, God, you would kill the wicked! If only murderers would get away from me—
20 the people who talk about you, but only for wicked schemes; the people who are your enemies, who use your name as if it were of no significance.
21 Don't I hate everyone who hates you? Don't I despise those who attack you?
22 Yes, I hate them—through and through! They've become my enemies too.
23 Examine me, God! Look at my heart! Put me to the test! Know my anxious thoughts!
24 Look to see if there is any idolatrous way in me, then lead me on the eternal path!
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