Psalms 115

World English Bible 89 include this book

1 Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

3 But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

5 They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

6 They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell.

7 They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

9 Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

10 House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

12 The LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

14 May the LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.

15 Blessed are you by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

16 The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

17 The dead don’t praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence,

18 but we will bless the LORD, from this time forward and forever more. Praise the LORD!

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28 places named in this book — no place is named in this chapter, so the whole book is shown.

Jerusalem traditional Assembled for temple worship over several centuries.

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 1010 BC–400 BC David and many others
The Psalter is a collection assembled over centuries; individual psalms range widely in date.

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (1010 BC–400 BC).

1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.
1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.

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