Psalm 146:1-7

1 Alaba, oh alma mía, al SEÑOR

2 Alabaré al SEÑOR en mi vida; diré salmos a mi Dios mientras viviere

3 No confiéis en los príncipes, ni en hijo de hombre, porque no hay en él salvación

4 Saldrá su espíritu, se volverá en su tierra; en aquel día perecerán todos sus pensamientos

5 Dichoso aquel en cuya ayuda es el Dios de Jacob, cuya esperanza es en el SEÑOR su Dios

6 el cual hizo los cielos y la tierra, el mar, y todo lo que en ellos hay; el que guarda verdad para siempre

7 el que hace derecho a los agraviados; el que da pan a los hambrientos; el SEÑOR, el que suelta a los aprisionados

Psalm 146:1-7 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.