Psalms 146
1 Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.
Praise Yahweh! With my whole inner being I will praise Yahweh.
2 I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.
I will praise Yahweh as long as I am alive; I will sing to praise my God for [the rest of] my life.
3 Trust not in princes — in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.
[You people], do not trust in your leaders; do not trust humans because they cannot save/rescue you [from your difficulties/problems].
4 His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
And when they die, their corpses [decay and] become soil again. After they die, they can no longer do the things that they planned to do.
5 O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God,
But those whose helper is the God whom Jacob [worshiped] are happy. The one whom they confidently expect [to help them] is Yahweh, their God.
6 Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,
He is the one who created heaven and the earth and the oceans and all [the creatures] that are in them. He always does what he has promised to do.
7 Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.
He decides matters fairly for those who are (treated unfairly/oppressed), and he provides food for those who are hungry. He frees those who are in prison.
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,
Yahweh enables those who are blind to see again. He lifts up those who have fallen down. He loves righteous [people].
9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
Yahweh takes care of those from other countries who live in our land, and he helps widows and orphans. But he gets rid of wicked [people].
10 Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!
Yahweh will [continue to] be our king forever; you people of Israel, your God will rule forever! Praise Yahweh!
