1 Praise ye the Lord.

Praise the Lord, O my soul.

2 While I live will I praise the Lord:

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

3 Put not your trust in princes,

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

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

In that very day his thoughts perish.

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

Whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6 Which made heaven, and earth,

The sea, and all that therein is:

Which keepeth truth for ever:

7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed:

Which giveth food to the hungry.

The Lord looseth the prisoners:

8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind:

The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down:

The Lord loveth the righteous:

9 The Lord preserveth the strangers;

He relieveth the fatherless and widow:

But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10 The Lord shall reign for ever,

Even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.

Praise ye the Lord.