Saturday, December 27, 2008

Psalm 115

God's pleasure in creation and the subject of idols is echoed in psalm 135. Palestrina and Kenneth Branagh's Henry V make Non nobis famous.

Not to us יְהוָה not to us
but to your name be glory
for your loving-kindness and your faithfulness

why will the nations say
where pray tell is their God?
but our God is in the heavens
all that he delighted in he did

their idols are silver and gold
work of the hands of a human
mouth they have and speak not
eyes they have and see not
ears they have and hear not
nose they have and smell not
their hands and they feel not
their feet and they walk not
nor do they mutter with their neck
like them their makers will become
not to mention all that are trusting in them

Israel trust in יְהוָה
their help and their shield is he
House of Aaron trust in יְהוָה
their help and their shield is he
you who fear יְהוָה trust in יְהוָה
their help and their shield is he

יְהוָה remembers us and will bless
he will bless the house of Israel
he will bless the house of Aaron
he will bless those fearing יְהוָה
the small with the great

יְהוָה will increase you
you and your children
you are the blessed of יְהוָה who made heaven and earth
the heavens of heavens belongs to יְהוָה
but the earth he has given to the children of dust

the dead will not praise Yah
nor all descending to silence
but we will bless Yah
from now and for ever to the age
Hallelu Yah

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