- 1Praise Yah! Praise the Lord, my soul.
- 2While I live, I will praise the Lord. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
- 3Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
- 4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
- 5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord, his God:
- 6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
- 7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners.
- 8The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord raises up those who are bowed down. The Lord loves the righteous.
- 9The Lord preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
- 10The Lord will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!