Psalm 146 – Praise the LORD, O My Soul
A call to trust God alone, who helps the oppressed, the hungry, and the fatherless.
Psalm 146 opens the final five psalms of praise, following Psalms 145. The psalmist resolves to praise the LORD for life, warning against trusting in princes whose plans perish with their breath.
Hallelujah. Praise HaShem, O my soul.
I will praise HaShem while I live; I will sing praises unto my G-d while I have my being.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Happy is he whose help is the G-d of Jacob, whose hope is in HaShem his G-d,
Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; who keepeth truth for ever;
Who executeth justice for the oppressed; who giveth bread to the hungry. HaShem looseth the prisoners;
HaShem openeth the eyes of the blind; HaShem raiseth up them that are bowed down; HaShem loveth the righteous;
HaShem preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He maketh crooked.
HaShem will reign for ever, Thy G-d, O Zion, unto all generations. Hallelujah.