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1 Alleluia, [A Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. Praise the Lord, O my soul!.
2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3 Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.
4 His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
5 Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6 who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever;
7 who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones.
8 The Lord gives wisdom to the blind; the Lord sets up the broken down; the Lord loves the righteous:; the Lord preserves the strangers;
9 He will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.
10 The Lord shall reign forever, [even] your God, O Zion, to all generations.
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