The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
1 Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God!
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Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2 All my life long I'll praise God, singing songs to my God as long as I live.
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While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
3 Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
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Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them.
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His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing!
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Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
6 God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says -
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Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
7 he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. God frees prisoners -
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Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen.
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The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9 protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
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The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 God's in charge - always. Zion's God is God for good! Hallelujah!
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The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
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.
The King James Version is in the public domain.