Salmos 135

¹ Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Name of the Lorde: ye seruants of the Lord, praise him.

² Ye thatYou Levites who are in his sanctuary.stand in the house of the LORD, in theMeaning, the people: for the people and Levites had their courts, which were separate places of the temple.courts of the house of our God,

³ Praise ye the Lord: for the Lorde is good: sing praises vnto his Name: for it is a comely thing.

⁴ For the LORD hathThat is, has freely loved the posterity of Abraham.chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure.

⁵ For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is aboue all gods.

⁶ Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that]He joined God's power with his will, to the intent that we should not separate them and by this he wills God's people to depend on his power which he confirms by examples.did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

⁷ He bringeth vp the cloudes fro the ends of the earth, & maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures.

⁸ He smote the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast.

⁹ He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.

¹⁰ He smote many nations, and slew mightie Kings:

¹¹ As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, & all the kingdomes of Canaan:

¹² AndHe shows what fruit the godly conceive of God's power, by which they see how he destroys his enemies, and delivers his people.gave their land [for] an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

¹³ Thy Name, O Lorde, endureth for euer: O Lorde, thy remembrance is from generation to generation.

¹⁴ For the LORD willThat is, govern and defend his people.judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

¹⁵ TheBy showing the punishment God appoints for the heathen idolaters, he warns his people to beware of the same offences, seeing that idols have neither power nor life, and that their deliverance came not by idols, but by the mighty power of God, see (Psa_115:4-14).idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹⁶ They haue a mouth, and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.

¹⁷ They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.

¹⁸ They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

¹⁹ Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel: praise the Lord, ye house of Aaron.

²⁰ Praise the Lorde, ye house of Leui: ye that feare the Lord, praise the Lord.

²¹ Praised bee the Lorde out of Zion, which dwelleth in Ierusalem. Praise ye the Lord.