Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
Geneva Bible 1599
Psalms 136
1Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer. 2Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercie endureth for euer. 3Praise ye the Lord of lordes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 4Which onely doeth great wonders: for his mercie endureth for euer: 5Which by his wisedome made the heauens: for his mercie endureth for euer: 6Which hath stretched out the earth vpon the waters: for his mercie endureth for euer: 7Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 8As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer: 9The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer: 10Which smote Egypt with their first borne, (for his mercie endureth for euer) 11And brought out Israel from among them (for his mercie endureth for euer) 12With a mightie hande and stretched out arme: for his mercie endureth for euer: 13Which deuided the red Sea in two partes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 14And made Israel to passe through the mids of it: for his mercie endureth for euer: 15And ouerthrewe Pharaoh and his hoste in the red Sea: for his mercie endureth for euer: 16Which led his people through the wildernes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 17Which smote great Kings: for his mercie endureth for euer: 18And slewe mightie Kings: for his mercie endureth for euer: 19As Sihon King of the Amorites: for his mercie endureth for euer: 20And Og the King of Bashan: for his mercie endureth for euer: 21And gaue their land for an heritage: for his mercie endureth for euer: 22Euen an heritage vnto Israel his seruant: for his mercie endureth for euer: 23Which remembred vs in our base estate: for his mercie endureth for euer: 24And hath rescued vs from our oppressours: for his mercie endureth for euer: 25Which giueth foode to all flesh: for his mercie endureth for euer. 26Praise ye the God of heauen: for his mercie endureth for euer.
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