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Psalms 136

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. ✦ 2Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His mercy endures forever. ✦ 3Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His mercy endures forever: ✦ 4To Him who alone does great wonders, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 5To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 6To Him who laid out the earth above the waters, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 7To Him who made great lights, For His mercy endures forever— ✦ 8The sun to rule by day, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 9The moon and stars to rule by night, For His mercy endures forever. ✦ 10To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 11And brought out Israel from among them, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 12With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 13To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 14And made Israel pass through the midst of it, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 15But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 16To Him who led His people through the wilderness, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 17To Him who struck down great kings, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 18And slew famous kings, For His mercy endures forever— ✦ 19Sihon king of the Amorites, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 20And Og king of Bashan, For His mercy endures forever— ✦ 21And gave their land as a heritage, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 22A heritage to Israel His servant, For His mercy endures forever. ✦ 23Who remembered us in our lowly state, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 24And rescued us from our enemies, For His mercy endures forever; ✦ 25Who gives food to all flesh, For His mercy endures forever. ✦ 26Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven! For His mercy endures forever. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Exod 15 ·6Ps 78 ·6Ps 105 ·5Luke 1 ·5Exod 13 ·4Exod 14 ·4Neh 9 ·4Gen 1 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 136 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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