Psalm 146:1–147:11

¹Praise ye Jehovah.

Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

²While I live will I praise Jehovah:

I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

³Put not your trust in princes,

Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁴His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth;

In that very day his thoughts perish.

⁵Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help,

Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:

⁶Who made heaven and earth,

The sea, and all that in them is;

Who keepeth truth for ever;

⁷Who executeth justice for the oppressed;

Who giveth food to the hungry.

Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

⁸Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind;

Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down;

Jehovah loveth the righteous;

⁹Jehovah preserveth the sojourners;

He upholdeth the fatherless and widow;

But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

¹⁰Jehovah will reign for ever,

Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.

Praise ye Jehovah.

Psalm 147

¹Praise ye Jehovah;

For it is good to sing praises unto our God;

For it is pleasant, and praise is comely.

²Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem;

He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

³He healeth the broken in heart,

And bindeth up their wounds.

⁴He counteth the number of the stars;

He calleth them all by their names.

⁵Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;

His understanding is infinite.

⁶Jehovah upholdeth the meek:

He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.

⁷Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving;

Sing praises upon the harp unto our God,

⁸Who covereth the heavens with clouds,

Who prepareth rain for the earth,

Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

⁹He giveth to the beast his food,

And to the young ravens which cry.

¹⁰He delighteth not in the strength of the horse:

He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹Jehovah taketh pleasure in them that fear him,

In those that hope in his lovingkindness.