1. Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
2. While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3. Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
4. His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
5. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
6. who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
7. who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.