Psalms 146

1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul.

Hallelujah. Praise, O my soul, the Lord.

2 While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

I will praise the Lord throughout my life: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

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

Put not your trust in princes, in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

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

When his spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his [native] earth: on that very day perish his thoughts.

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

[But] happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is on the Lord his God;

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

Who hath made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

Who executeth justice for the oppressed: who giveth bread to the hungry: the Lord looseneth the prisoners;

8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.

The Lord causeth the blind to see; the Lord raiseth up those who are bowed down; the Lord loveth the righteous:

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

The Lord guardeth the strangers; the fatherless and widow he helpeth up; but the way of the wicked he maketh crooked.

10 The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!

The Lord will reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Hallelujah.