While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

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

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

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.

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

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

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

Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!