Salmos 146:1-9

1 Aleluia!Louve, ó minha alma, o SENHOR.

2 Louvarei o SENHOR por toda a minha vida;cantarei louvores ao meu Deus enquanto eu viver.

3 Não confiem em príncipes,em meros mortais, incapazes de salvar.

4 Quando o espírito deles se vai, eles voltam ao pó;naquele mesmo dia acabam-se os seus planos.

5 Como é feliz aquele cujo auxílio é o Deus de Jacó,cuja esperança está no SENHOR, no seu Deus,

6 que fez os céus e a terra,o mar e tudo o que neles há,e que mantém a sua fidelidade para sempre!

7 Ele defende a causa dos oprimidose dá alimento aos famintos.O SENHOR liberta os presos,

8 o SENHOR dá vista aos cegos,o SENHOR levanta os abatidos,o SENHOR ama os justos.

9 O SENHOR protege o estrangeiroe sustém o órfão e a viúva,mas frustra o propósito dos ímpios.

Salmos 146:1-9 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.