1 Praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah with all my being!
2 I will praise Jehovah while I live. I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3 Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
4 His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).
5 How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Jehovah his God!
6 He made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. He keeps truth (faith) forever!
7 He executes justice for the oppressed. He gives food to the hungry. Jehovah sets the prisoners free.
8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.
9 Jehovah protects the strangers. He supports the fatherless and the widow, but he overthrows the way of the wicked.