Psalm 146

English Standard Version

Put Not Your Trust in Princes

146 ^(A)Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
²I will praise the Lord ^(B)as long as I live;
^(C)I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

³^(D)Put not your trust in princes,
^(E)in a son of man, in whom there is ^(F)no salvation.
⁴When ^(G)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.

⁵^(H)Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose ^(I)hope is in the Lord his God,
⁶^(J)who made heaven and earth,
    the sea, and all that is in them,
^(K)who keeps faith forever;
⁷    ^(L)who executes justice for the oppressed,
    ^(M)who gives food to the hungry.

^(N)The Lord sets the prisoners free;
⁸    ^(O)the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
^(P)The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    ^(Q)the Lord loves the righteous.
⁹^(R)The Lord watches over the sojourners;
    ^(S)he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
    but ^(T)the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

¹⁰^(U)The Lord will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
^(V)Praise the Lord!

Isaiah 60:17-22

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¹⁷Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
    and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
    instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
    ^(A)and your taskmasters righteousness.
¹⁸^(B)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    devastation or destruction within your borders;
^(C)you shall call your walls Salvation,
    and your gates Praise.

¹⁹^(D)The sun shall be no more
    your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
    give you light;^[a]
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.^[b]
²⁰Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and ^(E)your days of mourning shall be ended.
²¹^(F)Your people shall all be righteous;
    ^(G)they shall possess the land forever,
^(H)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.^[c]
²²^(I)The least one shall become a clan,
    and the smallest one a mighty nation;
^(J)I am the Lord;
    in its time I will hasten it.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 60:19 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Targum add by night
Isaiah 60:19 Or your beauty
Isaiah 60:21 Or that I might display my beauty

Matthew 9:27-34

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Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

²⁷^(A)And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, ^(B)Son of David.” ²⁸When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” ²⁹^(C)Then he touched their eyes, saying, ^(D)“According to your faith be it done to you.” ³⁰And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, ^(E)“See that no one knows about it.” ³¹^(F)But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.

Jesus Heals a Man Unable to Speak

³²As they were going away, behold, a ^(G)demon-oppressed man who was mute ^(H)was brought to him. ³³And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds ^(I)marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.” ³⁴But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”