136:1Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness.

136:2Give ye thanks to the God of gods, For to the age is His kindness.

136:3Give ye thanks to the Lord of lords, For to the age is His kindness.

136:4To Him doing great wonders by Himself alone, For to the age is His kindness.

136:5To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age is His kindness.

136:6To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age is His kindness.

136:7To Him making great lights, For to the age is His kindness.

136:8The sun to rule by day, For to the age is His kindness.

136:9The moon and stars to rule by night, For to the age is His kindness.

136:10To Him smiting Egypt in their first-born, For to the age is His kindness.

136:11And bringing forth Israel from their midst, For to the age is His kindness.

136:12By a strong hand, and a stretched-out-arm, For to the age is His kindness.

136:13To Him cutting the sea of Suph into parts, For to the age is His kindness,

136:14And caused Israel to pass through its midst, For to the age is His kindness,

136:15And shook out Pharaoh and his force in the sea of Suph, For to the age is His kindness.

136:16To Him leading His people in a wilderness, For to the age is His kindness.

136:17To Him smiting great kings, For to the age is His kindness.

136:18Yea, He doth slay honourable kings, For to the age is His kindness.

136:19Even Sihon king of the Amorite, For to the age is His kindness.

136:20And Og king of Bashan, For to the age is His kindness.

136:21And He gave their land for inheritance, For to the age is His kindness.

136:22An inheritance to Israel His servant, For to the age is His kindness.

136:23Who in our lowliness hath remembered us, For to the age is His kindness.

136:24And He delivereth us from our adversaries, For to the age is His kindness.

136:25Giving food to all flesh, For to the age is His kindness.

136:26Give ye thanks to the God of the heavens, For to the age is His kindness!

137:1By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

137:2On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

137:3For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

137:4How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

137:6My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

137:7Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its foundation!'

137:8O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

137:9O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

138:0By David.

138:1I confess Thee, with all my heart, Before the gods I do praise Thee.

138:2I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

138:3In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

138:4O Jehovah, all kings of earth confess Thee, When they have heard the sayings of Thy mouth.

138:5And they sing in the ways of Jehovah, For great is the honour of Jehovah.

138:6For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

138:7If I walk in the midst of distress Thou quickenest me, Against the anger of mine enemies Thou sendest forth Thy hand, And Thy right hand doth save me.

138:8Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!