Psalms

¹ Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) Praise the LORD, O my soul!

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

³ Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation (help).

⁴ When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.

⁵ How blessed and graciously favored is he whose help is the God of Jacob (Israel), Whose hope is in the LORD his God,

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them, Who keeps truth and is faithful forever,

⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets free the prisoners.

⁸ The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous [the upright in heart].

⁹ The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow; But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

¹⁰ The LORD shall reign forever, Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)