The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Message Bible MSG
1 Halleluyah! Praise ADONAI, my soul!
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Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God!
2 I will praise ADONAI as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God all my life.
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All my life long I'll praise God, singing songs to my God as long as I live.
3 Don't put your trust in princes or in mortals, who cannot help.
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Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
4 When they breathe their last, they return to dust; on that very day all their plans are gone.
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Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them.
5 Happy is he whose help is Ya'akov's God, whose hope is in ADONAI his God.
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Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing!
6 He made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; he keeps faith forever.
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God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says -
7 He secures justice for the oppressed, he gives food to the hungry. ADONAI sets prisoners free,
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he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. God frees prisoners -
8 ADONAI opens the eyes of the blind, ADONAI lifts up those who are bent over. ADONAI loves the righteous.
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he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen.
9 ADONAI watches over strangers, he sustains the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he twists.
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protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
10 ADONAI will reign forever, your God, Tziyon, through all generations. Halleluyah!
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God's in charge - always. Zion's God is God for good! Hallelujah!
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.