Psalm 146. Lauda, anima mea.

1. PRAISE the Lord, O my soul: while I live, will I praise the Lord; *
   yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God.
2. O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man; *
   for there is no help in them.
3. For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, *
   and then all his thoughts perish.
4. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, *
   and whose hope is in the Lord his God:
5. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; *
   who keepeth his promise for ever;
6. Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; *
   who feedeth the hungry.
7. The Lord looseth men out of prison; *
   the Lord giveth sight to the blind.
8. The Lord helpeth them that are fallen; *
   the Lord careth for the righteous.
9. The Lord careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow: *
   as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
10. The Lord thy God, O Sion, shall be King for evermore, *
    and throughout all generations.