Psalms 146

1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

Hallelujah. Praise the LORD, 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:

I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being.

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

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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 dust; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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

Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

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

Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; 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 justice for the oppressed; who giveth bread to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners;

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

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind; the LORD raiseth up them that are bowed down; the LORD 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.

The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He maketh crooked.

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

The LORD will reign for ever, Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Hallelujah.