| Berean Study Bible | King James Bible |
| 1Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, O my soul. | 1Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. |
| 2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. | 2While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. |
| 3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. | 3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. |
| 4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish. | 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. |
| 5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, | 5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: |
| 6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever. | 6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: |
| 7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free, | 7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: |
| 8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous. | 8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: |
| 9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates. | 9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. |
| 10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah! | 10The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD. |
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