Psalms 146

1Hallelujah! Praise Yahweh, O my soul.

2I will praise Yahweh all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Yahweh his God,

6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. Yahweh sets the prisoners free,

8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind, Yahweh lifts those who are weighed down, Yahweh loves the righteous.

9Yahweh protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

10Yahweh reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!