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The Bible Psalms Psalm 145

Psalm 145

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Psalm 146 in the Hebrew numbering, which most Western Bibles follow.

1 Ἀλληλούϊα· Ἀγγαίου καὶ Ζαχαρίου. ΑΙΝΕΙ, ἡ ψυχή μου, τὸν Κύριον·

(146) Alleluia, [a Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. My soul, praise the Lord.

2 αἰνέσω Κύριον ἐν τῇ ζωῇ μου, ψαλῶ τῷ Θεῷ μου ἕως ὑπάρχω.

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

3 μὴ πεποίθατε ἐπ᾿ ἄρχοντας, ἐπὶ υἱοὺς ἀνθρώπων, οἷς οὐκ ἔστι σωτηρία.

Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

4 ἐξελεύσεται τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐπιστρέψει εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ· ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπολοῦνται πάντες οἱ διαλογισμοὶ αὐτοῦ.

His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

5 μακάριος οὗ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰακὼβ βοηθὸς αὐτοῦ, ἡ ἐλπὶς αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν αὐτοῦ

Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6 τὸν ποιήσαντα τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν, τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς· τὸν φυλάσσοντα ἀλήθειαν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα,

who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:

7 ποιοῦντα κρῖμα τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις, διδόντα τροφὴν τοῖς πεινῶσι. Κύριος λύει πεπεδημένους,

who executes judgement for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:

8 Κύριος σοφοῖ τυφλούς, Κύριος ἀνορθοῖ κατερραγμένους, Κύριος ἀγαπᾷ δικαίους,

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 Κύριος φυλάσσει τοὺς προσηλύτους· ὀρφανὸν καὶ χήραν ἀναλήψεται καὶ ὁδὸν ἁμαρτωλῶν ἀφανιεῖ.

he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

10 βασιλεύσει Κύριος εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ὁ Θεός σου, Σιών, εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν.

The Lord shall reign for ever, [even] your God, O Sion, to all generations.

Greek: the Septuagint as the Orthodox Media Network published it (Mount Athos); 2 Maccabees and the Prayer of Manasseh from Brenton's edition (1851). English: Brenton's translation (1851), its spelling updated by Michael Paul Johnson; public domain. About these texts.