Psaume 146:5-10

5 Heureux celui qui a le Dieu de Jacob pour aide, et dont l'attente est en l'Éternel son Dieu,

6 Qui a fait les cieux et la terre, la mer et tout ce qui y est; qui garde la fidélité à toujours;

7 Qui fait droit à ceux qui sont opprimés, qui donne du pain à ceux qui ont faim!

8 L'Éternel délie les captifs; l'Éternel ouvre les yeux des aveugles; l'Éternel redresse ceux qui sont courbés; l'Éternel aime les justes.

9 L'Éternel garde les étrangers; il soutient l'orphelin et la veuve; mais il renverse la voie des méchants.

10 L'Éternel régnera éternellement. O Sion, ton Dieu est d'âge en âge! Louez l'Éternel!

Psaume 146:5-10 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.