Psalms 135
1 Hallelujah. Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise him, O ye servants of the Lord;
Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts 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 Hallelujah; for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is lovely.
Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
4 For Jacob hath the Lord chosen unto himself, Israel, as his peculiar treasure.
He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
5 For I well know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
6 Whatsoever the Lord willeth, hath he done in the heavens, and on the earth, in the seas, and in all the deeps.
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 causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with the rain; he bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
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 it is] who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of cattle;
He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
9 Who sent signs and wonderful tokens into the midst of thee, O Egypt, against Pharaoh, and against all his servants;
There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
10 Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings;
He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
11 Sichon the king of the Emorites, and 'Og the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms 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 gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance unto Israel his people.
Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
13 O Lord, thy name [endureth] for ever: O Lord, thy memorial is throughout all generations.
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 espouse the cause of his people, and concerning his servants will he bethink himself.
Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of the hands of men.
But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
16 Mouths they have, but they speak not; eyes they have, but they see not;
Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
17 Ears they have, but they hear 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 Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth 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 O house of Israel, bless ye the Lord; O house of Aaron, bless ye the Lord.
[My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
20 O house of Levi, bless ye the Lord; ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.
You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, even he that resideth at Jerusalem. Hallelujah.
Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
