< Psalms 146 >

1 Alleluia. Of Haggai and Zachariah.
Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.
2 Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God as long as I shall be. Do not trust in the leaders,
I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.
3 in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.
Trust not in princes — in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.
4 His spirit will depart, and he will return to his earth. In that day, all their thoughts will perish.
His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob: his hope is in the Lord God himself,
O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God,
6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all the things that are in them.
Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,
7 He preserves the truth forever. He executes judgment for those who suffer injury. He provides food for the hungry. The Lord releases those who are bound.
Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.
8 The Lord enlightens the blind. The Lord sets upright those who have been thrown down. The Lord loves the just.
Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,
9 The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners.
Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign forever: your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

< Psalms 146 >