Psalms 146:1-10: in context

This psalm sets two kinds of trust against each other. Do not put your trust in princes, it warns, in a son of man in whom there is no help; his breath departs, he returns to the earth, and on that very day his plans perish. Happy instead is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry, frees prisoners, opens the eyes of the blind, lifts up the bowed down, watches over the foreigner, and upholds the widow and the orphan.

The psalm draws a sharp contrast between trusting in princes and trusting in God. Princes, the influential, the human helpers we are tempted to rely on, are mortal; their breath departs, they die, and on that day their plans and their power come to nothing. To stake our security on human power is to build on something that will fail, sometimes suddenly; the great and the strong are one breath away from the grave, and their help dies with them. Against that the psalm sets the God of Jacob, the maker of heaven and earth, who does not die, whose faithfulness endures forever, and whose help does not fail. And notice how the psalm describes this God: not remote or indifferent, but bent toward the vulnerable, executing justice for the oppressed, feeding the hungry, freeing prisoners, lifting the bowed down, upholding the widow and orphan and stranger. The God worth trusting is both enduring and compassionate, a help that does not fail and a champion of the weak. There is a searching question in the contrast for where we actually place our trust. We are prone to rely on human power, on influential people, on the strong of the world, to secure us; the psalm calls that folly, because such helpers die and their plans perish. The one worth trusting is the God who made heaven and earth, keeps faith forever, and stoops to the needy. Happy, it says, is the one whose hope is in him.

Where do I actually place my trust, in princes and human power that will fail when their breath departs, or in the God of Jacob, who endures forever, keeps faith, and stoops to uphold the weak, and whose help alone does not fail?