Psalm 115

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹² The 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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