Lauda, anima. Psal. cxlvi.
MY soul, praise thou the Lord always,
my God I will confess:
[verse 2] While breath and life prolong my days,
my tongue no time shall cease.
[verse 3] Trust not in worldly princes then,
though they abound in wealth:
Nor in the sons of mortal men,
in whom there is no health.
[verse 4] For why? their breath doth soon depart,
to earth anon they fall:
And then the counsels of their heart
decay and perish all.
[verse 5] O happy is that man, I say,
whom Jacobs God doth aid,
And he whose hope doth not decay,
but on the Lord is staid.
[verse 6] Which made the earth and waters deep,
the heavens high withall:
Which doth his word and promise keep
in truth, and ever shall.
[verse 7] With right always doth he proceed
for such as suffer wrong:
The poor and hungry he doth feed,
and loose the fetters strong.
[verse 8] The Lord doth send the blinde their sight,
the lame to limbs restore:
The Lord, I say, doth love the right
and just man evermore.
[verse 9] He doth defend the fatherless,
and stranger sad in heart,
And quit the widow from distress,
and ill mens ways subvert.
[verse 10] Thy Lord and God eternally,
O Sion, still shall reign,
In time of all posterity
for ever to remain.