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(146) Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias.
1 My soul, praise the Lord.
2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3 Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.
4 His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
5 Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6 who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:
7 who executes judgement for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:
8 the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;
9 he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.
10 The Lord shall reign for ever, even your God, O Sion, to all generations.