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\c 135
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\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
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\q1 You who worship Yahweh,
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\q1 praise him!
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\v 2 You who stand at the temple of Yahweh our God in its courtyards, ready to serve him,
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\q2 praise him !
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\v 3 Praise Yahweh because he does good things for us;
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\q2 sing to him because it is a joyful thing to do so.
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\v 4 He has chosen us, the descendants of Jacob;
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\q2 he has chosen us Israelites to belong to him.
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\v 5 I say these things because I know that Yahweh is great;
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\q2 he is greater than all the gods.
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\v 6 Yahweh does whatever he desires to do
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\q2 in heaven, on the earth,
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\q2 and in the seas, down to the bottom of the seas.
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\v 7 He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth;
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\q2 he makes lightning bolts to flash with the rain,
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\q2 and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
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\v 8 He is the one who killed all the firstborn males in Egypt,
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\q2 the firstborn of people and of animals.
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\v 9 There he performed many kinds of miracles
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\q2 to punish the king and all his officials.
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\v 10 He attacked many nations
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\q2 and killed the powerful kings who ruled them:
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\v 11 Sihon, the king of the Amor people group,
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\q2 Og, the king of Bashan,
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\q2 and all the other kings in the land of Canaan.
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\v 12 Yahweh gave us their land,
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\q2 so that it would belong to us, his people Israel, forever.
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\v 13 Yahweh, your name will endure forever,
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\q2 and people who are not yet born will remember the great things that you have done.
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\v 14 Yahweh declares that we, his people, are innocent,
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\q2 and he acts mercifully toward us.
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\v 15 But the idols that the other people groups worship are only statues made of silver and gold,
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\q2 things that humans have made.
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\v 16 Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say anything;
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\q2 they have eyes, but they cannot see anything.
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\v 17 They have ears, but they cannot hear anything,
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\q2 and they are not even able to breathe.
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\v 18 The people who make those idols are as powerless as those idols,
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\q2 and those who trust in those idols can accomplish no more than their idols can!
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\v 19 My fellow Israelites, praise Yahweh!
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\q1 You priests who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
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\v 20 You men who are descended from Levi, you who assist the priests, praise Yahweh!
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\q1 All you who have a reverential respect for Yahweh, praise him!
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\v 21 Praise Yahweh in the temple on Mount Zion in Jerusalem
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\q2 where he lives!
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\q1 Praise Yahweh!
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