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