Praise to Jehovah because of His mercy that has blessed, and will bless, for ever!  

Every verse has this repeated chorus, “For His mercy endureth for ever.” Such a peculiarity is used to enforce upon our unappreciative minds, that all our benefits flow from everlasting mercy. They are covenant mercies that are sure and unceasing, and are ours because God is good. They are daily repeated to us. 

We are told in the first three verses, and the last, to give thanks. The reasons being, what He is (vv. 1-3); what He is able to do (v. 4); His creative genius and power (vv. 5-9); His redemption from bondage (vv. 10-15); His providential dealings (vv. 16-22); His grace in calamity (vv. 23-24); His goodness to this world (v. 25); and that He is the God of Heaven (v. 26). 

Our God is also all these to us, but only because we know His redemptive mercy through Christ Jesus.

-Pastor Jeff O’ Neil

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Psalm 136 – Second Version

¹Praise GOD, for he is kind:
His mercy lasts for aye.
²Give thanks with heart and mind
To God of gods alway:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

³The Lord of lords praise ye,
Whose mercies still endure.
⁴Great wonders only he
Doth work by his great pow’r
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

⁵Which God omnipotent,
By might and wisdom high,
The heav’n and firmament
Did frame, as we may see:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

⁶To him who did outstretch
This earth so great and wide,
Above the waters’ reach
Making it to abide:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

⁷Great lights he made to be;
For his grace lasteth aye:
⁸Such as the sun we see,
To rule the lightsome day:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

⁹Also the moon so clear,
Which shineth in our sight;
The stars that do appear,
To guide the darksome night:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹⁰To him that Egypt smote,
Who did his message scorn;
And in his anger hot
Did kill all their first-born:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹¹Thence Isr’el out he brought;
For his grace lasteth ever.
¹²With a strong hand he wrought,
And stretch’d-out arm deliver:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹³The sea he cut in two;
For his grace lasteth still.
¹⁴And through its midst to go
Made his own Israel:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹⁵But overwhelm’d and lost
Was proud king Pharaoh,
With all his mighty host,
And chariots there also:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹⁶To him who pow’rfully
His chosen people led,
Ev’n through the desert dry,
And in that place them fed:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹⁷To him great kings who smote;
For his grace hath no bound.
¹⁸Who slew, and spared not
Kings famous and renown’d:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

¹⁹Sihon the Am’rites’ king;
For his grace lasteth ever:
²⁰Og also, who did reign
The land of Bashan over:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

²¹Their land by lot he gave;
For his grace faileth never,
²²That Isr’el might it have
In heritage for ever:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

²³Who hath remembered
Us in our low estate;
²⁴And us delivered
From foes which did us hate:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.

²⁵Who to all flesh gives food;
For his grace faileth never.
²⁶Give thanks to God most good,
The God of heav’n, for ever:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
eternally.