• 1. Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
  • 2. While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
  • 3. Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
  • 4. Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
  • 5. Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
  • 6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:
  • 7. Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
  • 8. The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
  • 9. The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
  • 10. The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.