Salmos 146:3-10

3 No confiéis en los príncipes, Ni en hijo de hombre, porque no hay en él salud.

4 Saldrá su espíritu, tornaráse en su tierra: En aquel día perecerán sus pensamientos.

5 Bienaventurado aquel en cuya ayuda es el Dios de Jacob, Cuya esperanza es en Jehová su Dios:

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

7 Que hace derecho á los agraviados; Que da pan á los hambrientos: Jehová suelta á los aprisionados;

8 Jehová abre los ojos á los ciegos; Jehová levanta á los caídos; Jehová ama á los justos.

9 Jehová guarda á los extranjeros; Al huérfano y á la viuda levanta; Y el camino de los impíos trastorna.

10 Reinará Jehová para siempre; Tu Dios, oh Sión, por generación y generación. Aleluya.

Salmos 146:3-10 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.