1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

2 While I live I will praise Jehovah. I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

3 Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his 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 Jehovah 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. Jehovah releases the prisoners.

8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.

9 Jehovah preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

10 Jehovah will reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye Jehovah.