Psalms 146
1Alleluia. Praise the Lord, because the psalm is good. Delightful and beautiful praise shall be for our God.
2The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He will gather together the dispersed of Israel.
3He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.
4He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names.
5Great is our Lord, and great is his virtue. And of his wisdom, there is no number.
6The Lord lifts up the meek, but he brings down the sinner, even to the ground.
7Sing before the Lord with confession. Play psalms to our God on a stringed instrument.
8He covers heaven with clouds, and he prepares rain for the earth. He produces grass on the mountains and herbs for the service of men.
9He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.
10He will not have good will for the strength of the horse, nor will he be well pleased with the legs of a man.
11The Lord is well pleased with those who fear him and with those who hope in his mercy.
1Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
2While I live will I praise the Lord: 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 the Lord his God:
6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:
8The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
9The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.