Psalms 146

1 Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.

Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul.

2 I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

3 Trust not in princes — in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

4 His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

5 O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God,

Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6 Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,

Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

7 Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

8 Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

10 Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.