Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasting

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From the striking form of it we should infer that it was a popular hymn among the Lord's ancient people. Most hymns with a solid, simple chorus become favorites with congregations, and this is sure to have been one of the best beloved. It contains nothing but praise. It is tuned to rapture, and can only be fully enjoyed by a devoutly grateful heart. </div> <div> It commences with a threefold praise to the Triune Lord (<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Ps 136:1-3</A>), then it gives us six notes of praise to the Creator (<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Ps 136:4-9</A>), six more upon deliverance from Egypt (<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Ps 136:10-15</A>), and seven upon the journey through the wilderness and the entrance into Canaan <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">(Ps 136:16-22</A>). Then we have two happy verses of personal gratitude for present mercy (<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Ps 134:23-24</A>), one (<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Ps 134:25</A>) to tell of the Lord's universal providence, and a closing verse to excite to never ending praise (<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">v26</A>).  - C. H. Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v1</B></A><B> - </B>This verse is exactly repeated 5 times<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#1ch16_34" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> in the Bible</A> including this verse.</div> <div> It is repeated another 7 times<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#psa100_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> in the Bible</A>, but not with the exact same words.</div> <bR> <div> Thanks are the least that we can offer, and these we ought freely to give. ...</div> <div> For his mercy endureth for ever. We shall have this repeated in every verse of this song, but not once too often. It is the sweetest stanza that a man can sing. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><B></B></FONT>What joy that there is mercy, mercy with Jehovah, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A NAME="v3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></FONT>enduring mercy, mercy enduring for ever. We are ever needing it, trying it, praying for it, receiving it: therefore let us for ever sing of it. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v4</B></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> </A>-<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > from DSS and some LXX. Masoretic text says "great wonders".</FONT></div> <div> lit. for His mercy is everlasting</div> <bR> <div> His works are all great in wonder even when they are not great in size; in fact, in the minute objects of the microscope we behold as great wonders as even the telescope can reveal. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v5</B></A><B> </B>-<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > When we look at all of nature, we see His great mercy. <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#luk12_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Luke 12:6</A></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A NAME="v6_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></FONT>heavens by understanding - ref <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#pro3_19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Prov 3:19; etc.</A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v7</B></A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >Thanks be to the Lord, who has not consigned us to darkness. In great mercy he has not left us to an uncertain, indistinct light, floating about fitfully, and without order; but he has concentrated light upon two grand luminaries, which, as far as we are concerned, are to us "great lights." The Psalmist is making a song for common people, not for your critical savans,—and so he sings of the sun and moon as they appear to us,—the greatest of lights. - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v8</B></A> - ref <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#mat5_45" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Matt 5:45</A></div> <div> Whenever we sit in the sunshine, our gratitude should be kindled. ...</div> <div> it is not the sun which we should worship, like the Parsees; but the Creator of the sun, as he did who wrote this sacred song. ...</div> <div> every sunbeam is a mercy, for it falls on undeserving sinners. ...</div> <div> Jesus, the <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#mal4_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Sun of Righteousness</A>, alone, can do more for us than all his servants put together..  - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v9</B></A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > God rules in both the day and the night.<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#joh9_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> John 9:4, etc.</A></FONT></div> <div> Let our thanks be as many as the stars, and let our lives reflect the goodness of the Lord, even as the moon reflects the light of the sun. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v10_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v10</B></A><B> </B>-  The psalm moves on from God's creation to the Exodus, to God's care for His people.</div> <div> This took place during the night. <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#exo12_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Exo 12:12</A></div> <div> The previous verses of this psalm could be a childrens' psalm, but vv10-24 are harder for me to enjoy.</div> <bR> <div> Because the monarch of Egypt stood in the way of the Lord's gracious purposes it became needful for the Lord to deal with him in justice; but the great design was mercy to Israel, and through Israel mercy to succeeding ages, and to all the world. To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn. The last and greatest of the plagues struck all Egypt to the heart. The sorrow and the terror which it caused throughout the nation it is hardly possible to exaggerate. From king to slave each one was wounded in the most tender point. The joy and hope of every household was struck down in one moment, and each family had its own wailing. The former blows had missed their aim compared with the last; but that "smote Egypt." ...</div> <div> He is slow to anger, and judgment is his strange work; but when mercy to men demands severe punishments he will not hold back his hand from the needful surgery. ...</div> <div> Let us even when the Lord's judgments are abroad in the earth continue to sing of his unfailing grace.  - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v11_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#11_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v11</B></A><B> </B>- This also happened by night. <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#exo12_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Exo 12:30-31,42</A></div> <div> The unfailing mercy of the Lord is gloriously seen in his separating his elect from the world. He brings out his redeemed and <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#2pe2_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">they are henceforth a people who show forth his praise</A>. - Spurgeon<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div>  <A NAME="v12_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v12 -</B></A> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. for His mercy is everlasting</FONT></div> <div> With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm. Not only the matter but the manner of the Lord's mighty acts should be the cause of our praise. We ought to bless the Lord for adverbs as well as adjectives. In the Exodus the great power and glory of Jehovah were seen. He dashed in pieces the enemy with his right hand. He led forth his people in no mean or clandestine manner. "<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#psa105_36" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">He brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person in all their tribes</A>." ...</div> <div> If one plague will not set them free there shall be ten;...</div> <div> God will not only use his hand but his arm—his extraordinary power shall be put to the work sooner than his purpose of mercy shall fail. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v13</B></A> -  lit. Red Sea</div> <div> This also happened by night. <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#exo14_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Exo 14:21</A></div> <bR> <div> Men deny miracles; but, granted that there is a God, they become easy of belief. Since it requires me to be an atheist that I may logically reject miracles, I prefer the far smaller difficulty of believing in the infinite power of God. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v14</B></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B> </B></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" >- <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#exo14_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Exo 14:22</A></FONT></div> <div> HE gave the people courage to follow the predestined track through the yawning abyss, which might well have terrified a veteran host. - Spurgeon. </div> <div>  <A NAME="v15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v15</B></A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. for His mercy is everlasting</FONT></div> <div> This took place in the morning. <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#exo14_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Exo 14:24</A></div> <bR> <div> Yes, mercy continued to protect its children, and therefore called in the aid of justice to fulfil the capital sentence on their foes. Taken red handed, in the very act of rebellion against their sovereign Lord, the adversaries met the fate which they had themselves invited.</div> <div> The finally impenitent, terrible their doom, will not be witnesses against mercy; but rather this shall aggravate their misery, that they went on in defiance of mercy, and would yield themselves to him whose mercy endureth for ever. To the Israelites as they sung this song their one thought would be of the rescue of their fathers from fierce oppressor.  - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v16</B></A><B> -</B> lit. To him leading His people in the wilderness for His mercy is everlasting</div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#deut8_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Deut 8:2,15</A></div> <div> What a multitude of mercies are comprehended in the conduct of such an enormous host through a region wherein there was no provision even for single travelers; yet the Lord by his infinite power and wisdom conducted a whole nation for forty years through a desert land, and their feet did not swell, neither did their garments wax old in all the journey. For his mercy endureth for ever. Their conduct in the wilderness tested his mercy most severely, but it bore the strain; many a time he forgave them; and though he smote them for their transgressions, yet he waited to be gracious and speedily turned to them in compassion. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v17</B></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> </A>- Remember this when we are persecuted by worldly powers.</div> <div> Within sight of their inheritance Israel had to face powerful enemies. Kings judged to be great because of the armies at their back blocked up their road. ...</div> <div> He who had subdued the really mighty ruler of Egypt made short work of these petty sovereigns, great though they were in the esteem of neighboring princes. For his mercy endureth for ever. Mercy, which had brought the chosen tribes so far, would not be balked by the opposition of boastful foes. The Lord who smote Pharaoh at the beginning of the wilderness march, smote Sihon and Og at the close of it. How could these kings hope to succeed when even mercy itself was in arms against them. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v18</B></A> -</FONT> ref <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#deu29_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Deut 29:7</A>; etc</div> <div> What good was their fame to them? As they opposed God they became infamous rather than famous. Their deaths made the Lord's fame to increase among the nations while their fame ended in disgraceful defeat. For his mercy endureth for ever. ...</div> <div>  <A NAME="v19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v19</B></A><B> -</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" > His mercy is no respecter of persons, and neither the greatness nor the fame of Sihon could protect him after he had dared to attack Israel. The Lord will not forsake his people because Sihon blusters.  - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <div>  <A NAME="v20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v20</B></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >- He was of the race of the giants, but he was routed like a pygmy when he entered the lists with Israel's God. ...</FONT></div> <div> He who delivers us out of one trouble will rescue us out of another, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his grace in us.  - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v21</B></A><B> - </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >Both our temporal and our spiritual estates come to us by royal charter. What God gives us is ours by the best of titles. Inheritance by God's gift is tenure which even Satan cannot dispute. For his mercy endureth for ever. - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <div>  <A NAME="v22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v22 </B></A><B>- </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >Repetitions are effective in poetry, and the more so if there be some little variation in them, bringing out into fuller light some point which else had not been noticed. The lands of the heathen kings were given to "Israel", the name by which the chosen seed is here mentioned for the third time in the Psalm, with the addition of the words, "his servant." - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <div>  <A NAME="v23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v23 </B></A><B>-</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3333CC" FACE="Arial" >ref.<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#ps40_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> Ps 40:17</A></FONT></div> <div> Personal mercies awake the sweetest song—"he remembered us." <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#neh5_19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">Our prayer is, "Lord, remember me</A>", and this is our encouragement—he has remembered us. ...</div> <div> Ours was a sorry estate,—an estate of bankruptcy and mendicancy (being a beggar). ...</div> <div> Our state was once so low as to be at hell's mouth; since then it has been low in poverty, bereavement, despondency, sickness, and heart sorrow, and we fear, also, sinfully low in faith, and love, and every other grace; and yet the Lord has not forgotten <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#ps31_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">us as a dead thing out of mind</A>; but he has tenderly remembered us still. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v24 -</B></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. for His mercy is everlasting</FONT></div> <div>  <A NAME="v25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v25</B></A><B> </B>- ref.<A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#mat6_25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> Mat 6:26; etc</A></div> <div> Common providence, which cares for all living things, deserves our most devout thanks. If we think of heavenly food, by which all saints are supplied, our praises rise to a still greater height; but meanwhile the universal goodness of God in feeding all his creatures is as worthy of praise as his special favors to the elect nation. Because the Lord feeds all life therefore we expect him to take special care of his own family. For his mercy endureth for ever. Reaching downward even to beasts and reptiles, it is, indeed, a boundless mercy, which knows no limit because of the meanness of its object. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>v26</B></A> "Give ye thanks unto the Lord of Lords for His mercy is everlasting", repeated here, comes from LXX and Vulgate.</div> <div> Here is the narrative of the psalm without the chorus:</div> <div> Give thanks to the LORD for He is good.</div> <div> Give thanks to the God of Gods.</div> <div> Give thanks to the Lord of Lords: (vv1-3)</div> <bR> <div> To Him who alone makes great wonders, </div> <div> to Him Who makes the heavens by understanding, </div> <div> to Him Who spreads out the land over the waters, </div> <div> to Him who makes great lights: the sun to rule by day, the moon and stars to rule by night, (vv4-9)</div> <bR> <div> To Him Who smote Egypt's firstborn and brought Israel out from their midst by a strong hand and outstretched arm, </div> <div> to Him Who divided the Red Sea into parts and made Israel pass through its midst, but hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea, </div> <div> to Him Who led His people in the wilderness, </div> <div> to Him Who smote great kings and slew famous kings: to Sihon king of the Amorites and to Og the king of Bashan and gave their land for a portion, a heritage unto Israel, His servant. (vv10-22)</div> <bR> <div> Who remembered us in our low estate and delivered us from our foes.(v23-24)</div> <bR> <div> Who gives bread to all flesh.(v25)</div> <bR> <div> Give thanks to the God of the heavens for His mercy is everlasting. (v26)</div> <bR> <div> Mark the one sole cause of his bounty—For his mercy endureth for ever. He hath done all things from this motive; and because his mercy never ceases, he will continue to multiply deeds of love world without end. Let us with all our powers of heart and tongue give thanks unto the holy name of Jehovah for ever and ever. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> <B>5/3/2025</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > copyright Steve Miller voiceInWilderness.info</FONT></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <A NAME="head"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Psalm 136</B></div> <div> <I>(tune: "</I><A HREF="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/c/4" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/c/4"><I>This is the Day that the Lord has Made</I></A><I>" 4.4.5.5.4.4.5.5.9.9.4.4.5.)</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> <embed src="HTMLobj-1164/ThisIsTheDayThatTheLordHathMade.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </I></div> <div> music file from <A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1248" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1248">hymnal.net</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >1 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">1</A> Give the LORD thanks</div> <div> for good is He</div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting,</div> <div>  <A NAME="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>2 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" >Give ye thanks to</FONT></div> <div> the God of Gods    </div> <div> because His mercy </div> <div> is everlasting</div> <div>  <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>3 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" >Give ye thanks unto the Lord of lords</FONT></div> <div> for His mercy is everlasting.</div> <div>  <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">4</A> To Him Who makes</div> <div> wonders alone</div> <div> due to His mercy.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >2 </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > <A NAME="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">5</A> To Him Who makes</div> <div> the heavens by </div> <div> understanding for</div> <div> His mercy's fore'er.</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>6 To Him who spreads </div> <div> the land over </div> <div> the waters for His </div> <div> mercy's forever.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> 7 </A>To Him Who makes great lights because His,</div> <div> <I>for His</I> mercy is everlasting:</div> <div>  <A NAME="8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">8</A> The sun to rule </div> <div> by day for His</div> <div> mercy's forever.</div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >3 </FONT>  <A NAME="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">9</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT> The moon and stars </div> <div> to rule by night</div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v10_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">10</A> To Him  Who smote </div> <div> Egypt's firstborn </div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting,</div> <div>  <A NAME="11_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v11_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">11</A> And brought Israel out from among them</div> <div> for His mercy is everlasting.</div> <div>   <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v12_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">12</A> By a strong hand</div> <div> and out-stretched arm</div> <div> due to His mercy.</div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >4 </FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">13</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT>To Him Who parts</div> <div> the Sea in parts</div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting,</div> <div>   <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">14</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > a</FONT>nd made Israel </div> <div> pass through its midst</div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting,</div> <div>  <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v15" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">15</A> but shook off Pharaoh and his army</div> <div> in the Red sea due to His mercy. </div> <div>  <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">16</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT>To Him leading</div> <div> in the desert</div> <div> due to His mercy.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >5</FONT>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v17" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">17</A> To Him Who smote</div> <div> great kings because,</div> <div> <I>because </I>His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">18</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > a</FONT>nd slew famous</div> <div> kings because His,</div> <div> <I>because His</I> mercy</div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v19" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">19</A> To Sihon king of the Amorites, </div> <div> for His mercy is everlasting,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">20</A> and to Og king </div> <div> of Bashan for</div> <div> His mercy's fore'er.</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 6<A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v21" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> </A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v21" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">21</A> and gave their land </FONT></div> <div> for a portion</div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">22</A> a heritage</div> <div> unto Israel,</div> <div> His servant because</div> <div> His mercy's fore'er.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">23</A> Who remembered us in our low state</div> <div> for His mercy is everlasting.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v24" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">24</A> And delivered </div> <div> us from our foes</div> <div> due to His mercy</div> <div> . <A NAME="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >7 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v25" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">25</A> Who giveth bread </div> <div> unto all flesh</div> <div> because His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v26" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti">26 </A>Give thanks to the </div> <div> God of heaven</div> <div> because His mercy </div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <div> <I>Give ye thanks unto the God of Gods.</I></div> <div> Give ye thanks unto the Lord of Lords.</div> <div> <I>Give the Lord thanks</I></div> <div> for His mercy</div> <div> is everlasting.</div> <bR> <div> ---------------------</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="1ch16_34"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>1 Chronicles 16:34</B></A> <B>Give thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; For his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever.</B></div> <div> 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, <B>to give thanks to Jehovah, because his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever</B>;</div> <div> Psalm 106:1 Hallelujah! <B>Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever</B>.</div> <div> 107:1 <B>Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever.</B></div> <div> 118:1 <B>Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever.</B>  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="psa100_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Psalm 100:5</B></A> <B>For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever;</B> and his faithfulness from generation to generation.</div> <div> Jeremiah 33:10 Thus saith Jehovah: In this place of which ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast! in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,</div> <div>  11 there shall again be heard the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, <B>Give ye thanks unto Jehovah of hosts; for Jehovah is good, for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever</B>, -- of them that bring thanksgiving unto the house of Jehovah. For I will turn the captivity of the land as in the beginning, saith Jehovah.</div> <div> 2Chronicles 5:13 -- it came to pass when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one voice to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah: <B>For He is good, for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever;</B> that then the house, the house of Jehovah, was filled with a cloud,</div> <div>  14 and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of God.</div> <div> 7:1 And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house.</div> <div>  2 And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah, because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah's house.</div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#404040" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > <A NAME="2ch7_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#intro" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>3</B></A> And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, and bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped and <B>thanked Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever.</B></div> <div> 4 And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Jehovah.</div> <div>  5 And king Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#intro" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"> </A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#intro" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>6</B></A><B> </B>And the priests stood in their charges, and the Levites with Jehovah's instruments of music, which David the king had made to praise Jehovah, <B>for his loving-kindness endureth for ever</B>, when David praised by their means; and the priests sounded the trumpets opposite to them, and all Israel stood.</div> <div> 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth towards the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Jehovah your God, and ye shall be established; believe his prophets, and ye shall prosper!</div> <div>  21 And he consulted with the people, and appointed singers to Jehovah, and those that should praise in holy splendor, as they went forth before the armed men, and say, <B>Give thanks to Jehovah; for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever</B>!</div> <div> <B>Ezra 3:11</B> And they sang alternately together in praising and <B>giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness </B><I>endureth </I><B>for ever</B> toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="luk12_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Luke 12:6</B></A> Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? and one of them is not forgotten before God.</div> <div>  7 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bwgrkl" >; <A NAME="pro3_19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Proverbs 3:19</B></A> Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; <B>by understanding he established the heavens.</B>  </div> <div> <B>Jeremiah 10:12</B> He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath <B>stretched out the heavens by his understanding</B>. </div> <div> <B>51:15</B> He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath <B>stretched out the heavens by his understanding</B>.  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="mat5_45"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Matthew 5:45</B></A> in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for<B> He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good</B>, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="mal4_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Malachi 4:2</B></A> "But for you who fear My name the <B>Sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings</B>; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="joh9_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>John 9:4</B></A> I must work the works of him that has sent me<B> while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work</B>.</div> <div> 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?<B> If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;</B></div> <div>  10 but<B> if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him</B>.</div> <div> 13:30 Having therefore received the morsel, he [Judas] went out immediately; <B>and it was night</B>.</div> <div> <B>Romans 13:11</B> This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.</div> <div>  12 <B>The night is far spent, and the day is near; l</B>et us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.</div> <div>  13 <B>As in the day, let us walk becomingl</B>y; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.</div> <div> <B>1Corinthians 11:23</B> For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus,<B> in the night in which he was delivered up,</B> took bread,</div> <div> <B>1Thessalonians 5:2</B> For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord <B>will come like a thief in the night.</B></div> <div>  3 While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.</div> <div>  4 But <B>you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief</B>.</div> <div>  5 For<B> you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness</B>.</div> <div>  6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.</div> <div>  7 For those who sleep, <B>sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night</B>.</div> <div>  8 But <B>since we belong to the day</B>, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.</div> <div> <B>Revelation 21:25 </B>and<B> its gates will never be shut by day-- and there will be no night there.</B></div> <div> 22:5 And <B>night will be no more</B>. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.</div> <div> <B>Exodus 13:21</B> And the LORD went before them <B>by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them</B> along the way, and <B>by night in a pillar of fire to give them light</B>, that they might travel by day and by night.</div> <div>  22 The <B>pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night</B> did not depart from before the people.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="exo12_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v10_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Exodus 12:12</B></A> For I will pass through the land of Egypt <B>that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,</B> both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v11_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>...30</B></A><B> </B>And Pharaoh rose up <B>in the night,</B> he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.</div> <div> 31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron <B>by night</B> and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.</div> <div> ...42 It was <B>a night of watching</B> by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so<B> this same night is a night of watching</B> kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="2pe2_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v11_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>2Peter 2:9</B></A> But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.</div> <div>  10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</div> <div>  11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.</div> <div>  12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="psa105_36"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v12_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Psalm 105:36</B></A> He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land, The first of all their strength.</div> <div>  37 He also brought them out with silver and gold, And there was none feeble among His tribes.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="exo14_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Exodus 14:21</B></A> Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind <B>all night</B> and made the sea dry land, and the<B> waters were divided</B>.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>22</B></A> And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.</div> <div> 23 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v15" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B> 24</B></A> And <B>in the morning watch</B> the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,</div> <div>  25 clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians."</div> <div>  26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen."</div> <div>  27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, t<B>he LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.</B></div> <div>  28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.</div> <div>  29 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 11:29</B> By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians trying to do were swallowed up.  </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="deut8_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Deuteronomy 8:2</B></A> And thou shalt remember all the way which <B>Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness</B>, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.</div> <div>  3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.</div> <div>  4 <B>Thy clothing grew not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years</B>.</div> <div>  5 And know in thy heart that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee;</div> <div>  6 and thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.</div> <div> ...15 <B>who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness,</B> a wilderness of fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;</div> <div>  16 <B>who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,</B> which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="deu29_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Deuteronomy 29:7</B></A> And ye came to this place; and<B> Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan</B> came out against us for battle, and we smote them.</div> <div>  8 And we took their land, and<B> gave it for an inheritance</B> to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites.</div> <div> <B>2:30</B> But <B>Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit,</B> and made his heart obdurate, that he might give him into thy hand, as it is this day.</div> <div>  31 And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I begin to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin, take possession, that thou mayest possess his land.</div> <div>  32 And Sihon came out against us for battle, he and all his people, to Jahaz.</div> <div>  33 But Jehovah our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and his whole people.</div> <div>  34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, men, and women, and little ones: we let none escape.</div> <div>  35 Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.</div> <div>  36 From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all before us.</div> <div>  37 Only thou didst not approach the land of the children of Ammon, the whole border of the river Jabbok, nor the cities of the mountain, nor to whatsoever Jehovah our God had forbidden us.</div> <div> 3:1 And we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and <B>Og the king of Bashan came out against us,</B> he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.</div> <div>  2 And Jehovah said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.</div> <div>  3 And Jehovah our God gave into our hand Og the king of Bashan also, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.</div> <div>  4 And we took all his cities at that time: there was not a town which we took not from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</div> <div>  5 All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.</div> <div>  6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, men, women and little ones.</div> <div>  7 But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.</div> <div>  8 And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, that were on this side the Jordan, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon</div> <div>  9 (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):</div> <div>  10 all the cities of the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salchah and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</div> <div>  11 For <B>only Og the king of Bashan remained of the residue of giants:</B> behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? its length was nine cubits, and its breadth four cubits, after the cubit of a man.</div> <div>  12 And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;</div> <div>  13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob,<B> even all Bashan, is called a land of giants.</B></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="ps40_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Psalm 40:17</B></A><B> </B>But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat6_25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v25" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Matthew 6:25</B></A> "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?</div> <div>  26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?</div> <div> Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;</div> <div>  30 and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.</div> <div> Psalm 104:14 He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,</div> <div> 15 And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making his face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.</div> <div> ... 27 These all look unto thee, that thou mayest give their food in its season:</div> <div> 28 That thou givest unto them, they gather; thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good.</div> <div> 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.</div> <div> 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth.</div> <div> 31 The glory of Jehovah will endure for ever; Jehovah will rejoice in his works.</div> <div> 145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season.</div> <div> 16 Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.</div> <div> 147:8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;</div> <div>  9 Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="neh5_19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Nehemiah 5:19</B></A><B> </B>Remember for me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.</div> <div> <B>13:14</B> Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and for the charges thereof!</div> <div> <B>22 </B>And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the Sabbath day. Remember this also for me, my God, and spare me according to thy great mercy!</div> <div> <B>31</B> and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good!</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="ps31_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_136bd_l.htm#v23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 136 Because His Mercy is Everlasti"><B>Psalm 31:12</B></A> I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.</div> <bR> <div> 5/3/2025 copyright Steve Miller voiceInWilderness.info</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>