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!

He Heals the Brokenhearted

¹iPraise the Lord!

For jit is good to sing praises to our God;

for kit is pleasant,1 and la song of praise is fitting.

²The Lord mbuilds up Jerusalem;

he ngathers the outcasts of Israel.

³He heals othe brokenhearted

and pbinds up their wounds.

⁴He qdetermines the number of the stars;

he rgives to all of them their names.

⁵sGreat is our Lord, and tabundant in power;

uhis understanding is beyond measure.

⁶The Lord vlifts up the humble;2

he casts the wicked to the ground.

⁷wSing to the Lord with thanksgiving;

make melody to our God on xthe lyre!

⁸He covers the heavens with clouds;

he prepares yrain for the earth;

he makes zgrass grow on the hills.

⁹He agives to the beasts their food,

and to bthe young ravens that cry.

¹⁰His delight is not in cthe strength of the horse,

nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,

¹¹but the Lord dtakes pleasure in those who fear him,

in those who ehope in his steadfast love.

¹²Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!

Praise your God, O Zion!

¹³For he strengthens fthe bars of your gates;

he blesses your children within you.

¹⁴He gmakes peace in your borders;

he hfills you with the ifinest of the wheat.

¹⁵He jsends out his command to the earth;

his word runs swiftly.

¹⁶He gives ksnow like wool;

he scatters lfrost like ashes.

¹⁷He hurls down his crystals of mice like crumbs;

who can stand before his ncold?

¹⁸He osends out his word, and melts them;

he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.

¹⁹He declares his word to Jacob,

his pstatutes and rules3 to Israel.

²⁰He qhas not dealt thus with any other nation;

they do not know his rules.4

rPraise the Lord!