Praise the LORD!

Let all that I am praise the LORD.

I will praise the LORD as long as I live.

I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;

there is no help for you there.

When they breathe their last,

they return to the earth,

and all their plans die with them.

But joyful are those who have the God of Israel
as their helper,

whose hope is in the LORD their God.

Psalm 146:1-5