Psalm 146
Vers 1
Praise the LORD who reigns forever!
O my soul, bring him your praise.
I will bless my God and Maker
and extol him all my days.
Praises to my God I’ll sing;
all my life I’ll praise my King.
Vers 2
Put no trust in prince or ruler,
in a man however wise.
In him is no help or power;
when his breath departs, he dies.
All his plans that very day
end when he returns to clay.
Vers 3
Blest is he who has as helper
Jacob’s God and hopes in him;
he made heaven, earth, and ocean,
shaping all things found in them.
In his faithfulness the LORD
will forever keep his word.
Vers 4
The oppressed will see God’s justice,
and the captives he sets free;
he, the LORD, will feed the hungry
and will make the blind to see.
He lifts up all those bowed down;
them he will with mercy crown.
Vers 5
He, the LORD, protects the strangers;
orphans, widows he sustains.
He will make the wicked stumble.
Praise him who forever reigns.
Zion’s children, sing his laud.
Hallelujah, praise your God.