1 Halleluyah! Praise Adonai, O my soul!
2 I will praise Adonai all my life. I will praise my God yet again.
3 Do not put your trust in princes— in man, in whom there is no salvation.
4 His breath departs, he returns to his dust. In that very day his plans perish.
5 Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Adonai his God,
6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth forever,
7 who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives bread to the hungry. Adonai sets the prisoners free.
8 Adonai opens the eyes of the blind. Adonai raises up those who are bowed down. Adonai loves the righteous.
9 Adonai protects outsiders, upholds the fatherless and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked.
10 Adonai will reign forever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah!