Psaume 146:2-10

2 Je louerai l'Eternel tant que je vivrai, Je célébrerai mon Dieu tant que j'existerai.

3 Ne vous confiez pas aux grands, Aux fils de l'homme, qui ne peuvent sauver.

4 Leur souffle s'en va, ils rentrent dans la terre, Et ce même jour leurs desseins périssent.

5 Heureux celui qui a pour secours le Dieu de Jacob, Qui met son espoir en l'Eternel, son Dieu!

6 Il a fait les cieux et la terre, La mer et tout ce qui s'y trouve. Il garde la fidélité à toujours.

7 Il fait droit aux opprimés; Il donne du pain aux affamés; L'Eternel délivre les captifs;

8 L'Eternel ouvre les yeux des aveugles; L'Eternel redresse ceux qui sont courbés; L'Eternel aime les justes.

9 L'Eternel protège les étrangers, Il soutient l'orphelin et la veuve, Mais il renverse la voie des méchants.

10 L'Eternel règne éternellement; Ton Dieu, ô Sion! subsiste d'âge en âge! Louez l'Eternel!

Psaume 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.