1 P raise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.

2 I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

3 T rust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

4 H is spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

5 O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope on Jehovah his God,

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6 M aking the heavens and earth, The sea and all that in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,

which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7 D oing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

8 J ehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

the Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

9 J ehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

the Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10 J ehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.