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1 Praise the LORD.Praise the LORD, my soul.
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Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh, O my soul.
2 I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
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I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I [am] still [alive].
3 Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.
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Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
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His breath departs; he returns to his plot; on that day his plans perish.
5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God.
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Blessed [is the one] whose help [is] the God of Jacob, whose hope [is] on Yahweh [as] his God,
6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever.
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who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that [is] in them, the one who keeps faith forever,
7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free,
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[who] executes justice for the oppressed, [who] gives food for the hungry. Yahweh sets prisoners free;
8 the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
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Yahweh opens [the eyes of the] blind; Yahweh raises up [those] bowed down; Yahweh loves [the] righteous;
9 The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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Yahweh protects [the] strangers. He helps up [the] orphan and [the] widow, but [the] way of [the] wicked he {thwarts}.
10 The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.
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Yahweh will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, {throughout all generations}. Praise Yah.
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