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  • Psalm 115
  • Non nobis, Domine
 

 

1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us,

but to your Name give glory; *

because of your love and because of your faithfulness.

2 Why should the heathen say, *

"Where then is their God?"

3 Our God is in heaven; *

whatever he wills to do he does.

4 Their idols are silver and gold, *

the work of human hands.

5 They have mouths, but they cannot speak; *

eyes have they, but they cannot see;

6 They have ears but they cannot hear; *

noses, but they cannot smell;

7 They have hands, but they cannot feel;

feet, but they cannot walk; *

they make no sound with their throat.

8 Those who make them are like them, *

and so are all who put their trust in them.

9 O Israel, trust in the LORD; *

he is their help and their shield.

10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD; *

he is their help and their shield.

11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD; *

he is their help and their shield.

12 The LORD has been mindful of us, and he will bless us; *

he will bless the house of Israel;

he will bless the house of Aaron;

13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, *

both small and great together.

14 May the LORD increase you more and more, *

you and your children after you.

15 May you be blessed by the LORD, *

the maker of heaven and earth.

16 The heaven of heavens is the LORD'S, *

but he entrusted the earth to its peoples.

17 The dead do not praise the LORD, *

nor all those who go down into silence;

18 But we will bless the LORD, *

from this time forth for evermore.

Hallelujah!

green leaf at end of canticle

  chanted by the Rev. Philip Mayer
St. Peter's by the Lake Episcopal Church
The Colony, Texas