< Psalms 146 >
1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.
Praise ye YHWH. Praise YHWH, 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:
While I live will I praise YHWH: I will sing praises unto my Elohim while I have any 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 earth; 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:
Joyful is he that hath the El of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in YHWH his Elohim:
6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which 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:
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. YHWH looseth the prisoners:
8 The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.
YHWH openeth the eyes of the blind: YHWH raiseth them that are bowed down: YHWH 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.
YHWH preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.
YHWH shall reign for ever, even thy Elohim, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye YHWH.