[1] Praise the Lord! Yes, really praise him! [2] I will praise him as long as I live, yes, even with my dying breath. [3] Don't look to men for help; their greatest leaders fail; [4] for every man must die. His breathing stops, life ends, and in a moment all he planned for himself is ended. [5] But happy is the man who has the God of Jacob as his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God- [6] the God who made both earth and heaven, the seas and everything in them. He is the God who keeps every promise, [7] who gives justice to the poor and oppressed and food to the hungry. He frees the prisoners [8] and opens the eyes of the blind; he lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads. For the Lord loves good men. [9] He protects the immigrants and cares for the orphans and widows. But he turns topsy-turvy the plans of the wicked. [10] The Lord will reign forever. O Jerusalem, your God is King in every generation! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
