< Psalms 115 >
1 Yahweh, people should praise [only] you [MTY]; they must praise you, not us, because you faithfully love us and always do what you have promised to do.
Not to us O Yahweh not to us for to name your ascribe glory on covenant loyalty your on faithfulness your.
2 It is not right that [RHQ] [other] people-groups should say about us, “[They claim that] their God [is very powerful], but [if that is true], why does he not [help them]?”
Why? will they say the nations where? please [is] God their.
3 Our God is in heaven, and he does whatever he wants to!
And God our [is] in the heavens all that he desires he does.
4 [But] their idols are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
Idols their [are] silver and gold [the] work of [the] hands of humankind.
5 Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
A mouth [belongs] to them and not they speak eyes [belong] to them and not they see.
6 They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything]; they have noses, but they cannot smell [anything].
Ears [belong] to them and not they hear a nose [belongs] to them and not they smell!
7 They have hands, but they cannot feel [anything]; they have feet, but they cannot walk, and they have throats but cannot [even] make any sounds!
Hands their - and not they feel! feet their and not they walk not they make a sound with throat their.
8 The people who make those idols are [as powerless] as those idols, and those who trust in those idols [can accomplish nothing], just like their idols!
Like them they will be [those who] make them every [one] who [is] trusting in them.
9 You, [my fellow] Israeli people, trust in Yahweh! He is the one who helps you and [protects you like] [MET] a shield.
O Israel trust in Yahweh [is] help their and shield their he.
10 You priests [MTY], trust in Yahweh! He is the one who helps you and [protects you like] [MET] a shield.
O house of Aaron trust in Yahweh [is] help their and shield their he.
11 [All] you who revere Yahweh, trust in him! He is the one who helps you and [protects you like] [MET] a shield.
O [those] fearing Yahweh trust in Yahweh [is] help their and shield their he.
12 Yahweh has not forgotten us; he will bless us Israeli people [MTY]! He will bless the priests,
Yahweh he has remembered us he will bless he will bless [the] house of Israel he will bless [the] house of Aaron.
13 and he will bless [all] those who revere him; he will bless important [people] and people [who are considered to be] unimportant, [everyone!]
He will bless [those] fearing Yahweh small with great.
14 I desire that Yahweh will give many children to you [my fellow-Israeli people], and to your descendants.
May he add Yahweh to you to you and to children your.
15 I desire that Yahweh, the one who made heaven and the earth, will bless [all of] you!
[be] blessed You by Yahweh [the] maker of heaven and earth.
16 The [highest] heavens belong to Yahweh, but he gave [everything that is on] the earth to [us] people.
The heavens [are] heavens of Yahweh and the earth he has given to [the] children of humankind.
17 Dead [people] are not [able to] praise Yahweh; when they descend into the place where dead people are, they are unable to speak and cannot praise him.
Not the dead they will praise Yahweh and not all [those who] go down of silence.
18 But we [who are alive] will thank/praise him, now and forever. Praise Yahweh!
And we - we will bless Yahweh from now and until perpetuity praise Yahweh.