Psalm 146
Praise
the Lord, my soul.
2I will
praise the Lord all my life;
I will
sing praise to my God as long as I live.
3Do not
put Your trust in princes,
in
human beings, who cannot save.
4When
their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that
very day their plans come to nothing.
5
Blessed are those whose
help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
6He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
He remains faithful forever.
7He
upholds the cause of the oppressed
and
gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
8the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
9The Lord watches over the foreigner
and
sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but He
frustrates the ways of the wicked.
10The Lord reigns forever,
your
God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise
the Lord.
PSALM 146
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
Jesus (v. 8, 9), that Everlasting Kingdom (v. 10), to which this Psalm refers,
and to which therefore we should have an eye, in the singing of it.
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