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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 136 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/136.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/136-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Psalm 136</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/135.htm" title="Psalm 135">◄</a> Psalm 136 <a href="../psalms/137.htm" title="Psalm 137">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/psalms/136.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God’s Gracious Love</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Give thanks to the God of gods,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Give thanks to the Lord of lords,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>To the one who alone does great and wondrous things,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>to the one who by wisdom made the heavens,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>to the one who spread out the earth over the waters,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>to the one who made the great lights,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>the sun to illumine<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="136:8 Lit. govern; cf. Gen 1:16">a</a></span> the day,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and the moon and stars to illumine<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="136:9 Lit. govern; cf. Gen 1:16">b</a></span> the night,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>to the one who struck the firstborn of Egypt,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and brought Israel out from among them,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>with a strong hand and an active<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="136:12 Lit. outstretched">c</a></span> arm,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>To the one who split the Reed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="136:13 So MT; LXX reads Red">d</a></span> Sea in two</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and made Israel pass through the middle of it,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and cast Pharaoh and his armies into the Reed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="136:15 So MT; LXX reads Red">e</a></span> Sea,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>To the one who led his people into the wilderness,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>to the one who struck down great kings,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and killed famous kings,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>including Sihon king of the Amorites,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and Og king of Bashan,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and gave their land as an inheritance,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>to Israel his servant as a possession,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He it is who remembered us in our lowly circumstances,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and rescued us from our enemies,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He gives food to all creatures,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/136-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Give thanks to the God of Heaven,</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love is everlasting.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 136:8 Lit. <i>govern</i>; cf. 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