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Praise the LORD![a] Praise the LORD,[b] my soul.
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While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
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Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
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His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
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Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,
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who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
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who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.
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The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.
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The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
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The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD![c]