Psalms

 3 Do not put your trust in princes*

Nor in a son of man, who cannot bring salvation.+

 4 His spirit* goes out, he returns to the ground;+

On that very day his thoughts perish.+

 5 Happy is the one who has the God of Jacob as his helper,+

Whose hope is in Jehovah his God,+

 6 The Maker of heaven and earth,

Of the sea, and of all that is in them,+

The One who always remains faithful,+

 7 The One securing justice for those defrauded,

The One giving bread to the hungry.+

 8 Jehovah is opening the eyes of the blind;+

Jehovah is raising up those bowed down;+

Jehovah loves the righteous.

 9 Jehovah is protecting the foreign residents;

He sustains the fatherless child and the widow,+

But he thwarts the plans of the wicked.*+

10 Jehovah will be King forever,+

Your God, O Zion, for generation after generation.