Psalms 146 WEB
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 Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
2While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
10Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!
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