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Psalm 146:2-10

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2 I will praise the LORD 1while I live; I will 2sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3 3Do not trust in princes, In mortal 4man, in whom there is 5no salvation.
4 His 6spirit departs, he 7returns to the earth; In that very day his 8thoughts perish.
5 How 9blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose 10hope is in the LORD his God,
6 Who 11made heaven and earth, The 12sea and all that is in them; Who 13keeps faith forever;
7 Who 14executes justice for the oppressed; Who 15gives food to the hungry. The LORD 16sets the prisoners free.
8 The LORD 17opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD 18raises up those who are bowed down; The LORD 19loves the righteous;
9 The LORD 20protects the strangers; He 21supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts 22the way of the wicked.
10 The LORD will 23reign forever, Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
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Psalm 146:2-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 146

This psalm is entitled by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, "hallelujah", of Haggai and Zechariah; and by Apollinarius, the common hymn of them: and the Syriac inscription is still more expressive,

``it was said by Haggai and Zechariah, prophets, who came up with the captivity out of Babylon.''

Theodoret says this title was in some Greek copies in his time; but was not in the Septuagint, in the Hexapla: nor is it in any other Greek interpreters, nor in the Hebrew text, nor in the Targum; though some Jewish commentators, as R. Obadiah, take it to be an exhortation to the captives in Babylon to praise the Lord: and Kimchi interprets it of their present captivity and deliverance from it; and observes, that the psalmist seeing, by the Holy Spirit, the gathering of the captives, said this with respect to Israel; and so refers it to the times of the Messiah, as does also Jarchi, especially the Ps 146:10; and which, though they make it to serve an hypothesis of their own, concerning their vainly expected Messiah; yet it is most true, that the psalm is concerning the Messiah and his kingdom, to whom all the characters and descriptions given agree.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 23

  • 1. Psalms 63:4
  • 2. Psalms 104:33
  • 3. Psalms 118:9
  • 4. Psalms 118:8; Isaiah 2:22
  • 5. Psalms 60:11; Psalms 108:12
  • 6. Psalms 104:29
  • 7. Ecclesiastes 12:7
  • 8. Psalms 33:10; 1 Corinthians 2:6
  • 9. Psalms 144:15; Jeremiah 17:7
  • 10. Psalms 71:5
  • 11. Psalms 115:15; Revelation 14:7
  • 12. Acts 14:15
  • 13. Psalms 117:2
  • 14. Psalms 103:6
  • 15. Psalms 107:9; Psalms 145:15
  • 16. Psalms 68:6; Isaiah 61:1
  • 17. Matthew 9:30; John 9:7
  • 18. Psalms 145:14
  • 19. Psalms 11:7
  • 20. Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 19:34
  • 21. Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalms 68:5
  • 22. Psalms 147:6
  • 23. Exodus 15:18; Psalms 10:16

Footnotes 9

  • [a] Lit "a son of a man"
  • [b] Lit "his earth"
  • [c] Or "truth"
  • [d] Or "keeps"
  • [e] Or "sojourners"
  • [f] Or "relieves"
  • [g] Lit "makes crooked"
  • [h] Or "Hallelujah!"
  • [i] Heb YAH
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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