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1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my
God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is
in the LORD his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is:
which keepeth truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to
the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that
are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and
widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations. Praise ye the LORD.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2.
CLARKE'S COMMENTARY -
PSALMS 146 - http://www.godrules.net/library/clarke/clarkepsa146.htm
3. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary - http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/psalm/mh/psalm146.htm
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About Psalm 146 |
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This is the first of the
Psalms called Hallelujah Psalms, of which there are
five, and which conclude the book. No author's name is
prefixed to this, either in the Hebrew or Chaldee. But
the Syriac, Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and Arabic,
attribute it to Haggai and Zechariah. It was probably
written after the captivity, and may refer to the time
when Cyrus, prejudiced by the enemies of the Jews,
withdrew his order for the rebuilding of the walls of
Jerusalem, to which revocation of the royal edict the
third verse may refer: Put not your trust in princes &c.2 |
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The
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2006
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This and
all the rest of the psalms that follow begin and end with
Hallelujah, a word which puts much of God's praise into a
little compass; for in it we praise him by his name Jah, the
contraction of Jehovah. In this excellent psalm of praise,
I. The psalmist engages himself to praise God (v. 1, 2).
II.
He engages others to trust in him, which is one necessary
and acceptable way of praising him. 1. He shows why we
should not trust in men (v. 3, 4).
2. Why we should trust in
God (v. 5),
 because of his power in the kingdom of nature
(v. 6),
his dominion in the kingdom of providence (v. 7),
and his grace in the kingdom of the Messiah (v. 8, 9), that
everlasting kingdom (v. 10), to which many of the Jewish
writers refer this psalm, and to which therefore we should
have an eye, in the singing of it.3
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