Psalms 146

2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God even with my dying breath.

3 Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.

4 When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end.

5 But happy are those who have the God of Israel* as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God.¹

6 He is the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He is the one who keeps every promise forever,

7 who gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts the burdens of those bent beneath their loads. The LORD loves the righteous.

9 The LORD protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.

10 The LORD will reign forever. O Jerusalem,* your God is King in every generation! Praise the LORD!²

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1: Hebrew of Jacob.

2: Hebrew Zion.

^{New Living Translation Bible and Notes used with permission Tyndale House Publishers.}