Put Not Your Trust in Princes

¹nPraise the Lord!

Praise the Lord, O my soul!

²I will praise the Lord oas long as I live;

pI will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

³qPut not your trust in princes,

rin a son of man, in whom there is sno salvation.

⁴When this breath departs, he returns to the earth;

on that very day his plans perish.

⁵uBlessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose vhope is in the Lord his God,

⁶wwho made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that is in them,

xwho keeps faith forever;

⁷ywho executes justice for the oppressed,

zwho gives food to the hungry.

aThe Lord sets the prisoners free;

⁸bthe Lord opens the eyes of the blind.

cThe Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;

dthe Lord loves the righteous.

⁹eThe Lord watches over the sojourners;

fhe upholds the widow and the fatherless,

but gthe way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

¹⁰hThe Lord will reign forever,

your God, O Zion, to all generations.

nPraise the Lord!