1 Praise the LORD!

Praise the LORD, my soul.

2 While I live, I will praise the LORD.

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 the LORD, 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.

The LORD frees the prisoners.

8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.

The LORD raises up those who are bowed down.

The LORD loves the righteous.

9 The LORD preserves the foreigners.

He upholds the fatherless and widow,

but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

10 The LORD will reign forever;

your God, O Zion, to all generations.

Praise the LORD!