Praise the LORD, O My Soul

¹ Hallelujah!

Praise the LORD, O my soul.

² I will praise the LORD all my life;

I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

³ Put not your trust in princes,

in mortal man, who cannot save.^*

⁴ When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground;

on that very day his plans perish.

⁵ Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose hope is in the LORD his God,

⁶ the Maker of heaven and earth,

the sea, and everything in them.

He remains faithful forever.

⁷ He executes justice for the oppressed

and gives food to the hungry.

The LORD sets the prisoners free,

⁸ the LORD opens the eyes of the blind,

the LORD lifts those who are weighed down,

the LORD loves the righteous.

⁹ The LORD protects foreigners;

He sustains the fatherless and the widow,

but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

¹⁰ The LORD reigns forever,

your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Hallelujah!