Psalms 146

1 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.

Alleluia, [a Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. My soul, praise the Lord.

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

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

3 Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

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

His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

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

Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, 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 forever;

who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:

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

who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:

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

the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;

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

he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

10 Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!

The Lord shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Sion, to all generations.