Hallelujah, praise the Lord, my soul. I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God all my days.
Do not rely on nobles, nor on those who are powerless to help you. When his breath departs, he returns to the ground; in that day his thoughts perish.
He has the God of Jacob as his helper. Blessed is he whose hope is in the LORD his God.
Jehovah, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; he keeps truth forever. He is the One who judges the oppressed with justice and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD gives freedom to the prisoners; the LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous; the LORD protects the stranger; the LORD upholds the fatherless and the widow, but he twists the way of the wicked.