< Psalms 146 >
1 Alleluia, [a Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. My soul, praise the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise thou the Lord, O my soule.
2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
I will prayse the Lord during my life: as long as I haue any being, I wil sing vnto my God.
3 Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sonne of man, for there is none helpe in him.
4 His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
His breath departeth, and he returneth to his earth: then his thoughtes perish.
5 Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Blessed is he, that hath the God of Iaakob for his helpe, whose hope is in the Lord his God.
6 who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:
Which made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth his fidelitie for euer:
7 who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:
Which executeth iustice for the oppressed: which giueth bread to the hungry: the Lord loseth the prisoners.
8 the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;
The Lord giueth sight to the blinde: the Lord rayseth vp the crooked: the Lord loueth the righteous.
9 he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.
The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse and widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.
10 The Lord shall reign for ever, [even] your God, O Sion, to all generations.
The Lord shall reigne for euer: O Zion, thy God endureth from generation to generation. Prayse ye the Lord.