Psalm 146

¹Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord, my soul.

²I will praise the Lord all my life;

I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

³Do not put your trust in princes,

in human beings, who cannot save.

⁴When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;

on that very day their plans come to nothing.

⁵Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose hope is in the Lord their God.

⁶He is the Maker of heaven and earth,

the sea, and everything in them—

he remains faithful forever.

⁷He upholds the cause of the oppressed

and gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets prisoners free,

⁸the Lord gives sight to the blind,

the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,

the Lord loves the righteous.

⁹The Lord watches over the foreigner

and sustains the fatherless and the widow,

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

¹⁰The Lord reigns forever,

your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the Lord.