Praise the Lord,^(A) my soul.

² I will praise the Lord all my life;^(B)
    I will sing praise^(C) to my God as long as I live.^(D)

² I will praise the Lord all my life;^(A)
    I will sing praise^(B) to my God as long as I live.^(C)
3 Do not put your trust in princes,^(D)
    in human beings,^(E) who cannot save.
⁴ When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;^(F)
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.^(G)

⁵ Blessed are those^(A) whose help^(B) is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord their God.

⁶ He is the Maker of heaven^(C) and earth,
    the sea, and everything in them—
    he remains faithful^(D) forever.