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!)