Psalms 146:1-8

¹Praise Yahweh! With my whole inner being I will praise Yahweh.

²I will praise Yahweh as long as I am alive; I will sing to praise my God for the rest of my life.

³You people, do not trust in your leaders; do not trust humans because they cannot save/rescue you from your difficulties/problems.

⁴And when they die, their corpses decay and become soil again. After they die, they can no longer do the things that they planned to do.

⁵But those whose helper is the God whom Jacob worshiped are happy. The one whom they confidently expect to help them is Yahweh, their God.

⁶He is the one who created heaven and the earth and the oceans and all the creatures that are in them. He always does what he has promised to do.

⁷He decides matters fairly for those who are ◄treated unfairly/oppressed►, and he provides food for those who are hungry. He frees those who are in prison.

⁸Yahweh enables those who are blind to see again. He lifts up those who have fallen down. He loves righteous people.