Psalm 146

 

 

1                    Praise the LORD.[a]  Praise the LORD, O my soul.

 

2                    I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

 

3                    Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.

 

4                    When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.

 

5                    Blesses is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

 

6                    the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—the LORD, who remains faithful forever.

 

7                    He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.  The LORD sets prisoners free,

 

8                    the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

 

9                    The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.

 

10               The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.  Praise the LORD.