Author: Various (David wrote most)To: IsraelDate: ~1000-400 BC

To provide Israel with a collection of songs, prayers, and poems for worship, lament, thanksgiving, and praise.

Psalms 146

1Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. {Praise ye...: Heb. Hallelujah}

2While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

3Put not your trust in princes, {nor} in the son of man, in whom {there is} no help. {help: or, salvation}

4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

5Happy {is he} that {hath} the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope {is} in the LORD his God:

6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein {is}: which keepeth truth for ever:

7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

8The LORD openeth {the eyes of} the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10The LORD shall reign for ever, {even} thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.