Psalms 146

1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

3 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

8 The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Hallelujah!