Psalm 115

Dead Idols and the Living God

115Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us,

but to your name give glory,

because of your loyal love,

because of your faithfulness.

²Why should the nations say,

“Where, pray tell,^a is their God?”

³But our God is in the heavens;

all that he desires, he does.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold,

the work of human hands.

⁵They have mouths, but cannot speak;

they have eyes, but cannot see;

⁶they have ears, but cannot hear;

they have noses, but cannot smell;

⁷they have their hands, but they cannot feel,

their feet, but they cannot walk;

they cannot utter a sound in their throats.

⁸Those who make them become like them,

as does everyone who trusts in them.

⁹O Israel, trust Yahweh;

he is their help and their shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh;

he is their help and their shield.

¹¹You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh;

he is their help and their shield.

¹²Yahweh remembers us; he will bless us.

He will bless the house of Israel;

he will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³He will bless those who fear Yahweh,

the small with the great.

¹⁴May Yahweh give you increase,

you and your children.

¹⁵May you be blessed by Yahweh,

who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,

but the earth he has given to the children of humankind.

¹⁷The dead do not praise Yah,^b

nor any descending into silence.

¹⁸It is we, we will bless Yah^c

from now until forever.

Praise Yah!^d