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1 Alleluia, a Psalm of Haggai and Zechariah.
My soul, praise the Lord.
2 While I live will I praise the Lord:
I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3 Trust not in princes,
Nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.
4 His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth;
In that day all his thoughts shall perish.
5 Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6 Who made heaven, and earth,
The sea, and all things in them:
Who keeps truth forever:
7 Who executes judgment for the wronged:
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord looses the fettered ones:
8 The Lord gives wisdom to the blind:
The Lord sets up the broken down:
The Lord loves the righteous:
The Lord preserves the strangers;
9 He will relieve the orphan and widow:
But will utterly remove the way of sinners.
10 The Lord shall reign forever,
Even thy God, O Zion, to all generations.