146:1 PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) Praise the Lord, O my soul! |
146:2 While I live will I praise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have any being. |
146:3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help. |
146:4 When his breath leaves him, he returns to his earth; in that very day his [previous] thoughts, plans, {and} purposes perish. |
146:5 Happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) is he who has the God of [special revelation to] Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, |
146:6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, Who keeps truth {and} is faithful forever, |
146:7 Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets free the prisoners, |
146:8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright in heart and in right standing with Him). |
146:9 The Lord protects {and} preserves the strangers {and} temporary residents, He upholds the fatherless and the widow {and} sets them upright, but the way of the wicked He makes crooked (turns upside down and brings to ruin). |
146:10 The Lord shall reign forever, even Your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) |