Psalm 135

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Praise the Lord.[a]

Praise the name of the Lord;
praise him, you servants of the Lord,
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you who minister in the house of the Lord,
in the courts of the house of our God.

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Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
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For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.

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I know that the Lord is great,
that our Lord is greater than all gods.
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The Lord does whatever pleases him,
in the heavens and on the earth,
in the seas and all their depths.
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He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.

14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[a] forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.