< Psalms 146 >
1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
2 While I live I will praise Jehovah. I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,
6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth forever,
7 who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. Jehovah releases the prisoners.
8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.
9 Jehovah preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
10 Jehovah will reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye Jehovah.