1Hallelujah. Praise, O my soul, the Lord. 2I will praise the Lord throughout my life: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3Put not your trust in princes, in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4When his spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his native earth: on that very day perish his thoughts. 5But happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is on the Lord his God; 6Who hath made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever; 7Who executeth justice for the oppressed: who giveth bread to the hungry: the Lord looseneth the prisoners; 8The Lord causeth the blind to see; the Lord raiseth up those who are bowed down; the Lord loveth the righteous: 9The Lord guardeth the strangers; the fatherless and widow he helpeth up; but the way of the wicked he maketh crooked. 10The Lord will reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Hallelujah.