Chapter 146
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 goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that has 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 keeps truth forever: 7 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the prisoners: 8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind: the Lord raises them that are bowed down: the Lord loves the righteous: 9 The Lord preserves the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked He turns upside down. 10 The Lord shall reign forever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.
Chapter 147
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The Lord does build up Jerusalem: He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. 3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. 4 He tells the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite. 6 The Lord lifts up the meek: He casts the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. 10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: He takes not pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy.
12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For He has strengthened the bars of thy gates; He has blessed thy children within thee. 14 He makes peace in thy borders, and fills thee with the finest of the wheat. 15 He sends forth His commandment upon earth: His word runs very swiftly. 16 He gives snow like wool: He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. 17 He casts forth His ice like morsels: who can stand before His cold? 18 He sends out His word, and melts them: He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. 19 He shows His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His judgments unto Israel. 20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
