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[Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias.]
[1] My soul, praise the Lord.
[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, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:
[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 for ever, even thy God, O Sion, to all generations.
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