1  ^aNot to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,

^bfor the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

2  Why should the nations say,

^c“Where is their God?”

3  ^dOur God is in the heavens;

^ehe does all that he pleases.

4  ^fTheir idols are silver and gold,

^gthe work of human hands.

5  They have mouths, ^hbut do not speak;

eyes, but do not see.

6  They have ears, but do not hear;

noses, but do not smell.

7  They have hands, but do not feel;

feet, but do not walk;

and they do not make a sound in their throat.

8  ⁱThose who make them become like them;

so do all who trust in them.

9  O ^jIsrael,^{1 k}trust in the Lord!

He is their ^lhelp and their shield.

10  O ^jhouse of Aaron, trust in the Lord!

He is their help and ^mtheir shield.

11  You ⁿwho fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!

He is their help and their shield.

12  The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;

he will bless ^othe house of Israel;

he will bless ^othe house of Aaron;

13  he will ^pbless those who fear the Lord,

^qboth the small and the great.

14  May the Lord ^rgive you increase,

you and your children!

15  May ^syou be blessed by the Lord,

^twho made heaven and earth!

16  The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,

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

17  ^uThe dead do not praise the Lord,

nor do any who go down into ^vsilence.

18  But ^wwe will bless the Lord

from this time forth and forevermore.

^xPraise the Lord!

1  Hear this, O house of Jacob,

^dwho are called by the name of Israel,

and ^ewho came from the waters of Judah,

^fwho swear by the name of the Lord

and confess the God of Israel,

but not in truth or right.

2  For they call themselves after the holy city,

^gand stay themselves on the God of Israel;

the Lord of hosts is his name.

3  “The former things ^hI declared of old;

they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;

then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

4  Because I know that ⁱyou are obstinate,

and your neck is an iron sinew

and your forehead brass,

5  ^hI declared them to you from of old,

before they came to pass I announced them to you,

lest you should say, ^j‘My idol did them,

my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’

6  “You have heard; now see all this;

and will you not declare it?

From this time forth ^kI announce to you new things,

hidden things that you have not known.

7  They are created now, not long ago;

before today you have never heard of them,

lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

8  You have never heard, you have never known,

from of old your ear has not been opened.

For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously,

and that ^lfrom before birth you were called a rebel.

9  ^m“For my name’s sake I defer my anger;

for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,

that I may not cut you off.

10  Behold, I have refined you, ⁿbut not as silver;

^oI have tried¹ you in the furnace of affliction.

11  ^pFor my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,

for how should my name² be profaned?

^qMy glory I will not give to another.

12  “Listen to me, O Jacob,

and Israel, whom I called!

I am he; ^rI am the first,

and I am the last.

13  My hand ^slaid the foundation of the earth,

and my right hand ^sspread out the heavens;

^twhen I call to them,

they stand forth together.

14  “Assemble, all of you, and listen!

^uWho among them has declared these things?

The Lord loves him;

^vhe shall perform his purpose on Babylon,

and his arm shall be against ^wthe Chaldeans.

15  ^xI, even I, have spoken and called him;

I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.

16  ^yDraw near to me, hear this:

from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,

from the time it came to be I have been there.”

And now ^zthe Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.

17  Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you to profit,

who leads you in the way you should go.

18  ^aOh that you had paid attention to my commandments!

^bThen your peace would have been like a river,

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

19  ^cyour offspring would have been like the sand,

and your descendants like its grains;

their name would never be cut off

or destroyed from before me.”

20  ^dGo out from Babylon, flee from ^eChaldea,

declare this ^fwith a shout of joy, proclaim it,

send it out to the end of the earth;

say, ^g“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

21  ^hThey did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;

ⁱhe made water flow for them from the rock;

he split the rock and the water gushed out.

22  ^j“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”