Psalm 146

1Hallelujah! Praise Yahweh, my soul!

2I will praise Yahweh all my life; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.

3Do not put your trust in princes, in a mere human being, who cannot save.

4When their breath departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans perish.

5Blessed is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Yahweh their God,

6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them, who keeps faith forever,

7who brings justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. Yahweh sets the prisoners free;

8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind; Yahweh lifts up those who are bowed down; Yahweh loves the righteous.

9Yahweh watches over the foreigners; he sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the way of the wicked.

10Yahweh will reign forever, your God, Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!