The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Psalms Chapter 115.

CHAP. CXV.

1 Because God is truly glorious, 4 and Idols are vanity, 9 He exhorteth to confidence in God. 12 God is to be blessed for his blessings.

¹ Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name giue glory: for thy mercy, and for thy truthes sake.

² Wherefore should the heathen say: Where is now their God?²

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³ But our God is in the heauens: he hath done whatsoeuer he pleased.³

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⁴ Their idoles are siluer and gold: the worke of mens hands.⁴

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⁵ They haue mouths, but they speake not; eies haue they, but they see not.

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⁶ They haue eares, but they heare not: noses haue they, but they smell not.

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⁷ They haue hands, but they handle not, feete haue they, but they walke not: neither speake they through their throat.

⁸ They that make them are like vnto them: so is euery one that trusteth in them.

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⁹ O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their helpe and their shield.

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¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their helpe & their shield.

¹¹ Ye that feare the Lord trust in the Lord: he is their helpe and their shield.

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¹² The Lord hath bene mindfull of vs, he will blesse vs, he will blesse the house of Israel: he will blesse the house of Aaron.

¹³ Hee will blesse them that feare the Lord: both small and great.¹³

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¹⁴ The Lord shall increase you more and more: you and your children.

¹⁵ You are blessed of the Lord: which made heauen and earth.

¹⁶ The heauen, euen the heauens are the Lords: but the earth hath hee giuen to the children of men.

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¹⁷ The dead praise not the Lord: neither any that go downe into silence.

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¹⁸ But we will blesse the Lord, from this time foorth and for euermore. Praise the Lord.¹⁸

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