¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul.²While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.³Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.⁴His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.⁵Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;⁷who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.⁸The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.⁹The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.¹⁰The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!