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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 136</span></h3><h3><span class="text">God’s Work in Creation and in History</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>O give thanks to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for he is good,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>O give thanks to the God of gods,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>O give thanks to the Lord of lords,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>who alone does great wonders,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>who by understanding made the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>who spread out the earth on the waters,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>who made the great lights,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>the sun to rule over the day,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>the moon and stars to rule over the night,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>who struck Egypt through their firstborn,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>and brought Israel out from among them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>who divided the Red Sea<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18280a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> in two,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>and made Israel pass through the midst of it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18282b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>who led his people through the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>who struck down great kings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>and killed famous kings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Sihon, king of the Amorites,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>and Og, king of Bashan,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>and gave their land as a heritage,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>a heritage to his servant Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>It is he who remembered us in our low estate,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>and rescued us from our foes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>who gives food to all flesh,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>O give thanks to the God of heaven,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for his steadfast love endures forever.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 136:13">Psalm 136:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sea of Reeds</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 136:15">Psalm 136:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sea of Reeds</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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