Psalms 146-148

Psalm 146

¹Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

²As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

³Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

⁵Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

⁶Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

⁷Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

⁸Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

⁹Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

¹⁰Jehovah will reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluiah!

Psalm 147

¹Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for it is pleasant: praise is comely.

²Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel.

³He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

⁴He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth names to them all.

⁵Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

⁶Jehovah lifteth up the meek; he abaseth the wicked to the earth.

⁷Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing psalms upon the harp unto our God:

⁸Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;

⁹Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry.

¹⁰He delighteth not in the strength of the horse, he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man;

¹¹Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his loving-kindness.

¹²Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

¹³For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;

¹⁴He maketh peace in thy borders; he satisfieth thee with the finest of the wheat.

¹⁵He sendeth forth his oracles to the earth: his word runneth very swiftly.

¹⁶He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;

¹⁷He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

¹⁸He sendeth his word, and melteth them; he causeth his wind to blow -- the waters flow.

¹⁹He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

²⁰He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!

Psalm 148

¹Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah from the heavens; praise him in the heights.

²Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts.

³Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars of light.

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

⁵Let them praise the name of Jehovah, for he it is that commanded, and they were created:

⁶And he established them for ever and ever; he made for them a statute which shall not pass.

⁷Praise Jehovah from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps;

⁸Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word;

⁹Mountains and all hills, fruit-trees and all cedars;

¹⁰Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl;

¹¹Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth;

¹²Both young men and maidens, old men with youths, --

¹³Let them praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above the earth and the heavens.

¹⁴And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Hallelujah!