1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God : 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is : which keepeth truth for ever : 7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners : 8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind : the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down : the Lord loveth the righteous : 9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow : but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 10 The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.