Psalm 146:1–10 (NIV)

¹ Praise the Lord. 

Praise the Lord, my soul. 

² I will praise the Lord all my life; 

I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 

³ Do not put your trust in princes, 

in human beings, who cannot save. 

⁴ When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; 

on that very day their plans come to nothing. 

⁵ Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, 

whose hope is in the Lord their God. 

⁶ He is the Maker of heaven and earth, 

the sea, and everything in them— 

he remains faithful forever. 

⁷ He upholds the cause of the oppressed 

and gives food to the hungry. 

The Lord sets prisoners free, 

⁸ the Lord gives sight to the blind, 

the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, 

the Lord loves the righteous. 

⁹ The Lord watches over the foreigner 

and sustains the fatherless and the widow, 

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. 

¹⁰ The Lord reigns forever, 

your God, O Zion, for all generations. 

Praise the Lord.