Psalms 146

1 Halleluyah ·praise Yah·! Praise Adonai, my soul.

2 While I live, I will praise Adonai. I will sing zahmar ·musical praise· to my God as long as I exist.

3 Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

4 His spirit departs, and he teshuvah ·completely returns· to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob [Supplanter] for his help, whose hope is in Adonai, his God:

6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

7 who executes mishpat ·justice· for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Adonai frees the prisoners.

8 Adonai opens the eyes of the blind. Adonai raises up those who are bowed down. Adonai 'ahav ·affectionately loves· the upright.

9 Adonai preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

10 Adonai will reign forever; your God, O Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], to all generations. Halleluyah ·praise Yah·!