Chapter 146
1 Praise Yah ! Praise Yahweh , my soul .
2 While I live , I will praise Yahweh . 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 .
4 His spirit departs , and he returns to the earth. In that very day , his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help , whose hope is in Yahweh , his God ,
6 who made heaven and earth , the sea , and all that is in them ; who keeps truth forever ;
7 who executes justice for the oppressed ; who gives food to the hungry . Yahweh frees the prisoners.
8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind . Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down . Yahweh loves the righteous .
9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners . He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down .
10 Yahweh will reign forever ; your God , O Zion , to all generations . Praise Yah !