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              1 Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God!
            
            
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Praise the LORD.Praise the LORD, 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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I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.            
            
              3 Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
            
            
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Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.            
            
              4 Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them.
            
            
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When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.            
            
              5 Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing!
            
            
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Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God.            
            
              6 God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says -
            
            
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He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever.            
            
              7 he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. God frees prisoners -
            
            
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He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free,            
            
              8 he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen.
            
            
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the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves 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 watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.            
            
              10 God's in charge - always. Zion's God is God for good! Hallelujah!
            
            
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The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.            
          
            
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