Psalms 146

1 Hallelujah. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

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

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:

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

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

4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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

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

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

6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; who keepeth truth for ever;

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

7 Who executeth justice for the oppressed; who giveth bread to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners;

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:

8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind; the LORD raiseth up them that are bowed down; the LORD loveth the righteous;

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

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

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

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

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