Psalm 146

 

Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, O my soul! * 

I will praise the LORD as long as I live; 

I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 

Put not your trust in rulers, nor in any child of earth, * 

for there is no help in them. 

When they breathe their last, they return to earth, * 

and in that day their thoughts perish. 

Happy are they who have the God of Jacob for their help!* 

whose hope is in the LORD their God; 

Who made heaven and earth, the seas, and all that is in them; * 

who keeps his promise for ever; 

Who gives justice to those who are oppressed, * 

and food to those who hunger. 

The LORD sets the prisoners free; 

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind; * 

the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; 

The LORD loves the righteous; the LORD cares for the stranger; * 

he sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked. 

The LORD shall reign for ever, * 

your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. 

Hallelujah!

Pietro Cavallini, surviving fragment of The Last Judgement in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, 

13th century