Psalms 146

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

Praise JAH. Praise YHWH, my soul.

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

While I live, I will praise YHWH. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

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

Do not put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

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

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

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

Blessed is the one who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in YHWH 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 that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

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

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. YHWH frees the prisoners.

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,

YHWH opens the eyes of the blind. YHWH raises up those who are bowed down. YHWH loves the righteous.

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

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

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

YHWH will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise JAH.