1Not to us, O LORD, but to you goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness.
2Why let the nations say, "Where is their God?"
3For our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes.
4Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
5They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
6They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
7or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
8And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
9O Israel, trust the LORD! He is your helper; he is your shield.
10O priests of Aaron, trust the LORD! He is your helper; he is your shield.
11All you who fear the LORD, trust the LORD! He is your helper; he is your shield.
12The LORD remembers us, and he will surely bless us. He will bless the people of Israel and the family of Aaron, the priests.
13He will bless those who fear the LORD, both great and small.
14May the LORD richly bless both you and your children.
15May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
16The heavens belong to the LORD, but he has given the earth to all humanity.
17The dead cannot sing praises to the LORD, for they have gone into the silence of the grave.
18But we can praise the LORD both now and forever! Praise the LORD!