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Praise the Lord! aPraise the Lord, O my soul!
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I will praise the Lord awhile I live; I will bsing praises to my God while I have my being.
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aDo not trust in princes, In mortal bman, in whom there is cno salvation.
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His aspirit departs, he breturns to the earth; In that very day his cthoughts perish.
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How ablessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose bhope is in the Lord his God,
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Who amade heaven and earth, The bsea and all that is in them; Who ckeeps faith forever;
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Who aexecutes justice for the oppressed; Who bgives food to the hungry. The Lord csets the prisoners free.
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The Lord aopens the eyes of the blind; The Lord braises up those who are bowed down; The Lord cloves the righteous;
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The Lord aprotects the strangers; He bsupports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts cthe way of the wicked.
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The Lord will areign forever, Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!
Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
