Psalm 146:1-7

1 ¡Aleluya! ¡Alabado sea el SEÑOR!Alaba, alma mía, al SEÑOR.

2 Alabaré al SEÑOR toda mi vida;mientras haya aliento en mí, cantaré salmos a mi Dios.

3 No pongan su confianza en gente poderosa,en simples mortales, que no pueden salvar.

4 Exhalan el espíritu y vuelven al polvo,y ese mismo día se desbaratan sus planes.

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

6 creador del cielo y de la tierra,del mar y de todo cuanto hay en ellos,y que siempre mantiene la verdad.

7 El SEÑOR hace justicia a los oprimidos,da de comer a los hambrientosy pone en libertad a los cautivos.

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.