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📚Praise the LORD 📖! Praise the name of the LORD;
praise him, you servants
of the LORD,
2 📚You who stand in the house
of the LORD,
in the courts of the house
of our God,
135:2 Who should praise God more than those who have the great privilege of being full time in His service?⚜
3 📚Praise the LORD, for the LORD
is good 📖.
Sing praises to his name,
for this is delightful 📖.
4 📚For the LORD has chosen
Jacob for himself,
Israel as his special treasure.
135:4 Ex 19:5; Deut 7:6; Mal 3:17; Titus 2:14. The third reason we should praise God – His electing love. He did not choose Jacob and his descendants because they were good or faithful or meritorious in any way. His choice was all of grace, and it was for the benefit of the whole world. Note at Gen 12:1-3.⚜
5 📚For I know 📖 that the LORD
is great 📖,
and that our Lord
is above all gods 📖.
6 📚Whatever the LORD pleased,
that he did in heaven
and on earth,
in the seas and all deep places.
7 📚He causes the vapours
to ascend from the
ends of the earth.
He makes lightnings for the rain.
He brings the wind out
of his treasuries.
135:7 He is in absolute control of His creation and the forces of nature. There is not one god of the rain, another of the wind, another of the sky. The one true God alone controls everything.⚜
8 📚He struck down the firstborn
of Egypt,
both of man and beast.
135:8 This was in perfect justice and avenged the Egyptian treatment of God’s children – Ex 1:15-22; 4:23; 12:12.⚜
9 📚He sent signs and
wonders into your midst,
O Egypt, on Pharaoh and
on all his servants.
10 📚He struck great nations,
and killed mighty kings,
11 📚Sihon king of the Amorites,
and Og king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of Canaan,
12 📚And gave their land as a
heritage,
a heritage to Israel his people.
13 📚Your name, O LORD, continues
on forever,
and the remembrance
of you, O LORD,
throughout all generations.
14 📚For the LORD will judge
his people,
and he will have compassion
on his servants.
135:14 The fifth reason he gives for praising God – though God’s people will experience injustice on every hand in this world, God will fulfill His good purpose toward them.⚜
15 📚The idols of the nations
are made of
silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands.
16 📚They have mouths,
but they do not speak.
They have eyes, but they
do not see.
17 They have ears, but they
do not hear;
nor is there any breath
in their mouths.
18 📚Those who make them are
like them;
so is everyone
who trusts in them.
19 📚Praise the LORD, O house
of Israel.
Praise the LORD, O house
of Aaron.
20 Praise the LORD,
O house of Levi.
You who fear the LORD,
praise the LORD.
21 📚Blessed be the LORD
from Zion,
who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD!