Psalms 135
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Name of the Lord: ye seruants of the Lord, praise him.
Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
2 Ye that stande in the House of the Lord, and in the courtes of the House of our God,
You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard, praise him [MTY]!
3 Praise ye the Lord: for the Lord is good: sing praises vnto his Name: for it is a comely thing.
Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
4 For the Lord hath chosen Iaakob to himselfe, and Israel for his chiefe treasure.
He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
5 For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is aboue all gods.
I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
6 Whatsoeuer pleased the Lord, that did hee in heauen and in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths.
Yahweh does whatever he desires to do, in heaven and on the earth and in the seas/oceans, [down] to the bottom of the seas.
7 He bringeth vp the cloudes from the ends of the earth, and maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures.
He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth; he sends lightning with the rain, and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
8 He smote the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast.
He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.
There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
10 He smote many nations, and slew mightie Kings:
He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
11 As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, and all the kingdomes of Canaan:
Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, and Og, the king of Bashan [region], and all the other kings in Canaan [land].
12 And gaue their lande for an inheritance, euen an inheritance vnto Israel his people.
Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
13 Thy Name, O Lord, endureth for euer: O Lord, thy remembrance is from generation to generation.
Yahweh your name will endure forever, and people who are not yet born will remember the great things [that you have done].
14 For the Lord will iudge his people, and be pacified towardes his seruants.
Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
15 The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.
But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
16 They haue a mouth, and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.
Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
17 They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.
They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything], and they are not [even able to] breathe.
18 They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
The people who make those idols are as [powerless as] those idols, and those who trust in those idols [can accomplish no more than] their idols can!
19 Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel: praise the Lord, ye house of Aaron.
[My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
20 Praise the Lord, ye house of Leui: ye that feare the Lord, praise the Lord.
You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
21 Praised bee the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth in Ierusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
