Psalm 146
Psalm 146
ST. STEPHEN (NEWINGTON)  |  Same-Tune Hymns  |  Bible Passage
Author: 1650 Scottish Psalter
Musician: William Jones, 1726-1800

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 1  Praise God. The Lord praise, O my soul.
 2     I'll praise God while I live;
    While I have being to my God
       in songs I'll praises give.
 3  Trust not in princes, nor man's son,
       in whom there is no stay:
 4  His breath departs, to's earth he turns;
       that day his thoughts decay.

 5  O happy is that man and blessed,
       whom Jacob's God doth aid;
    Whose hope upon the Lord doth rest,
       and on his God is stayed:
 6  Who made the earth and heavens high,
       who made the swelling deep,
    And all that is within the same;
       who truth doth ever keep:

 7  Who righteous judgment executes
       for those oppressed that be,
    Who to the hungry giveth food;
       God sets the pris'ners free.
 8  The Lord doth give the blind their sight,
       the bowèd down doth raise:
    The Lord doth dearly love all those
       that walk in upright ways.

 9  The stranger's shield, the widow's stay,
       the orphan's help, is he:
    But yet by him the wicked's way
       turned upside down shall be.
10  The Lord shall reign for evermore:
       thy God, O Zion, he
    Reigns to all generätions.
       Praise to the Lord give ye.


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BIBLE PASSAGE:

1 ¶ Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 ¶ Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.