Psalm 146
BSB
Praise the LORD, O My Soul
1Hallelujah!
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.
3Put not your trust in princes,
in mortal man, who cannot save.
4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground;
on that very day his plans perish.
5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,
6the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them.
He remains faithful forever.
7He executes justice for the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets the prisoners free,
8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind,
the LORD lifts those who are weighed down,
the LORD loves the righteous.
9The LORD protects foreigners;
He sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
10The LORD reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Hallelujah!
Introduction
Psalms 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 (Psa 146:1, Psa 146:2). 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 (Psa 146:3, Psa 146:4). 2. Why we should trust in God (Psa 146:5), because of his power in the kingdom of nature (Psa 146:6), his dominion in the kingdom of providence (Psa 146:7), and his grace in the kingdom of the Messiah (Psa 146:8, Psa 146:9), that everlasting kingdom (Psa 146:10), to which many of the Jewish writers refer this psalm, and to which therefore we should have an eye, in the singing of it.
Cross-references: Ps 146:1 · Ps 146:2 · Ps 146:3 · Ps 146:4 · Ps 146:5 · Ps 146:6 · Ps 146:7 · Ps 146:8 · Ps 146:9 · Ps 146:10