Psalms 146 KJV
Summary: Opening the Psalter's closing group of five "Hallelujah" psalms (146-150), this psalm urges praise from personal conviction, "While I live will I praise the LORD" (v. 2), and warns against trusting in human power: "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help" (v. 3), since even their plans perish with their breath. It lists God's practical care for the vulnerable — executing judgment for the oppressed, feeding the hungry, freeing prisoners, opening the eyes of the blind, and relieving the fatherless and widow (v. 7-9). It closes declaring "The LORD shall reign for ever... Praise ye the LORD" (v. 10).
1Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
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