^40:5You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted.

^40:6Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

^40:7Then I said, “Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me.

^40:8I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

^40:9I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; see, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord .

^40:10I have not hidden your saving help within my heart, I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.

^40:11Do not, O Lord , withhold your mercy from me; let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever.

^40:12For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

^40:13Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me; O Lord , make haste to help me.

^40:14Let all those be put to shame and confusion who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt.

^40:15Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”

^40:16But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”

^40:17As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.

^114:0God's Wonders at the Exodus

^114:1When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

^114:2Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

^114:3The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.

^114:4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

^114:5Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

^114:6O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?

^114:7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord , at the presence of the God of Jacob,

^114:8who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

^115:0The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God ^115:1Not to us, O Lord , not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.

^115:2Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

^115:3Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

^115:4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

^115:5They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.

^115:6They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.

^115:7They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; they make no sound in their throats.

^115:8Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

^115:9O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.

^115:10O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.

^115:11You who fear the Lord , trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.

^115:12The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;

^115:13he will bless those who fear the Lord , both small and great.

^115:14May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children.

^115:15May you be blessed by the Lord , who made heaven and earth.

^115:16The heavens are the Lord 's heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.

^115:17The dead do not praise the Lord , nor do any that go down into silence.

^115:18But we will bless the Lord from this time on and forevermore. Praise the Lord!