Psalms 146 WBT
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 to 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:
6Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them: who keepeth truth for ever:
7Who executeth judgment for the oppressed: who 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 will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
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