| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! | 1Praise the LORD! Let all that I am praise the LORD. |
| 2While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. | 2I will praise the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath. |
| 3Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. | 3Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. |
| 4His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. | 4When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them. |
| 5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, | 5But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God. |
| 6Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever, | 6He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever. |
| 7Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD gives freedom to the prisoners. | 7He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners. |
| 8The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous. | 8The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are weighed down. The LORD loves the godly. |
| 9The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down. | 9The LORD protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked. |
| 10The LORD shall reign forever— Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! | 10The LORD will reign forever. He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations. Praise the LORD! |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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