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- Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.
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- Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
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- But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
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- Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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- They have mouths, but no voice;
they have eyes, but they see not;
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- They have ears, but no hearing;
they have noses, but no sense of smell;
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- They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking;
and no sound comes from their throat.
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- Those who make them are like them;
and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
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- O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
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- O house of Aaron, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
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- You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
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- The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing;
he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron.
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- He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.
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- May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.
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- May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
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- The heavens are the Lord's;
but the earth he has given to the children of men.
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- The dead do not give praise to the Lord;
or those who go down to the underworld.
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- But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever.
Praise be to the Lord.
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