1 Louez l'Eternel! Mon âme, loue l'Eternel!
2 Je louerai l'Eternel tant que je vivrai, Je célébrerai mon Dieu tant que j'existerai.
3 Ne vous confiez pas aux grands, Aux fils de l'homme, qui ne peuvent sauver.
4 Leur souffle s'en va, ils rentrent dans la terre, Et ce même jour leurs desseins périssent.
5 Heureux celui qui a pour secours le Dieu de Jacob, Qui met son espoir en l'Eternel, son Dieu!
6 Il a fait les cieux et la terre, La mer et tout ce qui s'y trouve. Il garde la fidélité à toujours.
7 Il fait droit aux opprimés; Il donne du pain aux affamés; L'Eternel délivre les captifs;
8 L'Eternel ouvre les yeux des aveugles; L'Eternel redresse ceux qui sont courbés; L'Eternel aime les justes.
9 L'Eternel protège les étrangers, Il soutient l'orphelin et la veuve, Mais il renverse la voie des méchants.
10 L'Eternel règne éternellement; Ton Dieu, ô Sion! subsiste d'âge en âge! Louez l'Eternel!
1 Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
2 While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
5 Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:
7 Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
8 The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
9 The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
10 The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.