PSALM 146

¹Hallelujah.

                Praise the LORD, O my being!

                    ²Let me praise the LORD while I live,

                          let me hymn to my God while I breathe.

                    ³Do not trust in princes,

                          in a human who offers no rescue.

                ⁴His breath departs, he returns to the dust.

                    On that day his plans are naught.

                ⁵Happy whose help is Jacob’s God,

                    his hope—for the LORD his God,

                ⁶maker of heaven and earth,

                    the sea, and of all that is in them,

                          Who keeps faith forever,

                ⁷does justice for the oppressed,

                    gives bread to the hungry,

                          the LORD looses those in fetters.

                ⁸The LORD gives sight to the blind.

                    The LORD makes the bent stand erect.

                          The LORD loves the righteous.

                ⁹The LORD guards sojourners,

                    orphan and widow He sustains

                          but the way of the wicked He contorts.

                ¹⁰The LORD shall reign forever,

                    your God, O Zion, for all generations.

                          Hallelujah.