1 Praise YAH! Praise the Name of YHWH, || Praise, you servants of YHWH, 2 Who are standing in the house of YHWH, || In the courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise YAH! For YHWH [is] good, || Sing praise to His Name, for [it is] pleasant. 4 For YAH has chosen Jacob for Himself, || Israel for His peculiar treasure. 5 For I have known that YHWH [is] great, || Indeed, our Lord [is] above all gods. 6 All that YHWH pleased He has done, || In the heavens and in earth, || In the seas and all deep places, 7 Causing vapors to ascend from the end of the earth, || He has made lightnings for the rain, || Bringing forth wind from His treasures. 8 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, || From man to beast. 9 He sent tokens and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, || On Pharaoh and on all his servants. 10 Who struck many nations, and slew strong kings, 11 Even Sihon king of the Amorite, || And Og king of Bashan, || And all kingdoms of Canaan. 12 And He gave their land an inheritance, || An inheritance to His people Israel, 13 O YHWH, Your Name [is] for all time, || O YHWH, Your memorial from generation to generation. 14 For YHWH judges His people, || And comforts Himself for His servants. 15 The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, || Work of the hands of man. 16 They have a mouth, and they do not speak, || They have eyes, and they do not see, 17 They have ears, and they do not give ear, || Nose—there is no breath in their mouth! 18 Their makers are like them, || Everyone who is trusting in them. 19 O house of Israel, bless YHWH, || O house of Aaron, bless YHWH, 20 O house of Levi, bless YHWH, || Those fearing YHWH, bless YHWH. 21 Blessed [is] YHWH from Zion, || Inhabiting Jerusalem—praise YAH!
Psalms · Literal Standard Version
Psalm 135 Literal Standard Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 96:1–4; Psalm 7:17; Psalm 33:1–2; Psalm 111:1; Psalm 149:1–3
- 2 Psalm 116:19; Psalm 92:13; Luke 2:37; Psalm 96:8; 1 Chronicles 16:37–42
- 3 Psalm 147:1; Psalm 119:68; Psalm 106:1; Psalm 33:1; Psalm 145:7–8
- 4 1 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 10:15; Deuteronomy 7:6–7; Malachi 3:17; Zechariah 2:10–12
- 5 Psalm 95:3; Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalm 48:1; Psalm 97:9; Daniel 6:26–27
- 6 Psalm 115:3; Daniel 4:35; Matthew 28:18; Matthew 8:26–27; Psalm 33:9
- 7 Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 51:16; Job 28:25–26; Zechariah 10:1; John 3:8
- 8 Psalm 78:51; Exodus 12:12; Psalm 105:36; Exodus 13:15; Psalm 136:10
- 9 Psalm 136:15; Deuteronomy 6:22; Nehemiah 9:10; Isaiah 51:9–10; Deuteronomy 4:34
- 10 Psalm 136:17–22; Psalm 44:2–3; Numbers 21:24
- 11 Joshua 12:7–24; Nehemiah 9:22; Deuteronomy 29:7; Deuteronomy 2:30–3:11; Numbers 21:21–35
- 12 Psalm 78:55; Psalm 136:21–22; Psalm 44:1–3; Numbers 33:54; Joshua 12:7
- 13 Psalm 102:12; Exodus 3:15; Psalm 72:17; Psalm 8:9; Psalm 8:1
- 14 Deuteronomy 32:36; Jonah 4:2; Psalm 50:4; Psalm 7:8; Amos 7:6
- 15 Psalm 115:4–8; Habakkuk 2:18–19; Jeremiah 10:3–11; Isaiah 37:19; Acts 17:29
- 16 Matthew 13:14–16; Isaiah 6:10
- 18 Psalm 115:8; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Jeremiah 10:8; Isaiah 44:18–20; Psalm 97:7
- 19 Psalm 115:9–11; Psalm 145:10; Psalm 118:1–4; Psalm 148:14; Psalm 147:19–20
- 21 Psalm 134:3; Psalm 132:13–14; 2 Chronicles 6:6; Isaiah 12:6; Psalm 76:2
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
(ver. 1), "who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God" (ver. 2). Why has he added, "in the courts"? Courts mean the wider spaces of a house. He who stands in the courts is not straitened, is not confined, in some fashion is enlarged.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Lo, the whole world crieth out in the Church of God, "I know that the Lord is great." Yet doubtless there are but few who are saved.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
For so many measures of waters lie upon the clouds, yet they are not rent: but come down with all good order upon the earth. Who bringeth the winds out of their treasuries?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For whatsoever the Lord pleased that did He in heaven and in earth, and no one resisted His will.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
… with how great assurance will the purified mass, standing at the Right Hand, fearing now for itself the admixture of no evil men, nor the loss of any of the good, now about to reign with Christ, say, "I know that the Lord is great"!
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)