Psalms 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.●