Fits tune: St Michael
(\'The Lord is risen indeed\')
Psalm 146
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1. Praise the Lord, O my soul
He will come, make you whole
While I live I will praise His name
Who ever stays the same
2. While I have being, life
I will praise Him, no strife
Put not your trust in princes, men
They will fail you again
3. No help lasting through man
He only surely can
Avail temporary for a while
Then gone his breath, his style
4. But happy are such, they
Who to the Lord do pray
And whose help He is, they do trust
E\'en though they are mere dust
5. And happy they, who hope
In the Lord God, their slope
Through life steadily upwards is
Until eternal bliss
6. The Lord is He who made
Heaven, earth, sea, arrayed
He does for ever His truth keep
And tends and guards His sheep
7. He judgement does perform
For oppressed, help from storm
He too the hungry does them feed
Comes to them, meets their need
8. The Lord prisoners does loose
Opens eyes of blind, abstruse
Are not His ways, but plain, revealed,
He has not them concealed
9. The Lord to them bowed down
Does raise them, lifts their frown
The righteous He does love, and sure
Preserves strangers e\'ermore
10. He relieves fatherless
And widows too does bless
But way of wicked does He turn
Upside down, so they learn
11. The Lord shall reign for e\'er
E\'en Zion\'s God, from there
His holy mount, and in His care
All generations share.