Psalms 146

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

Praise Yahweh. Praise Yahweh, my soul.

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

I give praise to Yahweh with all my life; 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 or in mankind, in whom there is no salvation.

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

When a person's life's breath stops, he returns to the ground; on that day his plans end.

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

Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh his God.

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

Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; he observes trustworthiness forever.

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

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. Yahweh 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,

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind; Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down; Yahweh loves the 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 protects the foreigners in the land; he lifts up the fatherless and widow, but he opposes the wicked.

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

Yahweh will reign forever, your God, Zion, for all generations. Praise Yahweh.