Salmos 146:1-8

1 Salmo 146
¡Alabado sea el Señor
!
Que todo lo que soy alabe al Señor
.

2 Alabaré al Señor
mientras viva;
cantaré alabanzas a mi Dios con el último aliento.

3 No pongan su confianza en los poderosos;
no está allí la ayuda para ustedes.

4 Ellos, al dar su último suspiro, vuelven al polvo,
y todos sus planes mueren con ellos.

5 Pero felices son los que tienen como ayudador al Dios de Israel,
los que han puesto su esperanza en el Señor
su Dios.

6 Él hizo el cielo y la tierra,
el mar y todo lo que hay en ellos.
Él cumple todas sus promesas para siempre.

7 Hace justicia al oprimido
y da alimento al que tiene hambre.
El Señor
libera a los prisioneros.

8 El Señor
abre los ojos de los ciegos.
El Señor
levanta a los agobiados.
El Señor
ama a los justos.

Salmos 146:1-8 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.