Psalms 146

1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.

2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

3 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

8 The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.