Sing Hallelujah, praise the Lord, I'll praise Jehovah all my days

Verse 1

Sing HALLELUJAH! praise the LORD, I'll praise JEHOVAH all my days: O thou my soul! I'll to my God, While I a being have, sing praise.

Verse 2

Trust not in princes, nor mens sons, Who can no succour to you send; Their breath expires, to earth they turn, And all their thoughts that moment end.

Verse 3

O bless'd is he who hath the God Of Jacob for his constant aid; Whose lively confidence upon, The LORD his God is firmly stay'd.

Verse 4

Who heav'n, earht, sea, all in them made; Who ever doth his truth make good; Who for th' oppressed judgment does; And kindly gives the hungry food.

Verse 5

JEHOVAH sets the pris'ners free, JEHOVAH sight gives to the blind, The LORD lifts up the bowed down, The LORD is to the righteous kind.

Verse 6

The LORD the strangers doth preserve, The widows and the orphans raise; But He of them who wicked are Intirely overthrows the ways.

Verse 7

The LORD shall reign for evermore; Thy mighty God, O Zion, He To generations all shall reign: Therefore sing HALLELUJAH, ye