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.
Praise ye יהוה. Praise יהוה, O my soul.
While I live will I praise יהוה: I will sing praises unto my Elohim while I have any 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 earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Joyful is he that hath the El of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in יהוה his Elohim:
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. יהוה looseth the prisoners:
יהוה openeth the eyes of the blind: יהוה raiseth them that are bowed down: יהוה loveth the righteous:
יהוה preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
יהוה shall reign for ever, even thy Elohim, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye יהוה.