Psalms 146

Praise to Yahweh for His Help

¹Praise Yah.[#Hebrew hallelujah]

Praise Yahweh, O my soul.

²I will praise Yahweh while I live;

I will sing praises to my God while I am still alive.

³Do not place trust in princes,

in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.

⁴His breath departs; he returns to his plot;[#A Hebrew wordplay: “humankind,” adam (v. 3), returns to his ground/plot, adamah]

on that day his plans perish.

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

whose hope is on Yahweh as his God,

⁶who made heaven and earth,

the sea and all that is in them,

the one who keeps faith forever,

⁷who executes justice for the oppressed,

who gives food for the hungry.

Yahweh sets prisoners free;

⁸Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind;

Yahweh raises up those bowed down;

Yahweh loves the righteous;

⁹Yahweh protects the strangers.[#Or “watches over”]

He helps up the orphan and the widow,

but the way of the wicked he thwarts.

¹⁰Yahweh will reign forever,

Your God, O Zion, throughout all generations.

Praise Yah.