Psalms 146–150

¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul.

²While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

³Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

⁴His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

⁵Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,

⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

⁷who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

⁸The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.

⁹The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

¹⁰The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

²The LORD builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

³He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

⁴He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

⁵Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

⁶The LORD upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

⁷Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

⁸who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

⁹He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

¹⁰He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

¹²Praise the LORD, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!

¹³For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

¹⁴He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

¹⁵He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

¹⁶He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

¹⁷He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

¹⁸He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

¹⁹He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

²⁰He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

²Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!

³Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

⁴Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.

⁵Let them praise the LORD’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.

⁶He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

⁷Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths,

⁸lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,

⁹mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,

¹⁰wild animals and all livestock, small creatures and flying birds,

¹¹kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth,

¹²both young men and maidens, old men and children.

¹³Let them praise the LORD’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

¹⁴He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.

²Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

³Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

⁴For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

⁵Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

⁶May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,

⁷to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

⁸to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

⁹to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

²Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

³Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!

⁴Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

⁵Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!

⁶Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!