Salmi 146:1-9

1 Alleluia. Anima mia, loda l’Eterno.

2 Io loderò l’Eterno finché vivrò, salmeggerò al mio Dio, finché esisterò.

3 Non confidate nei principi, né in alcun figliuol d’uomo, che non può salvare.

4 Il suo fiato se ne va, ed egli torna alla sua terra; in quel giorno periscono i suoi disegni.

5 Beato colui che ha l’Iddio di Giacobbe per suo aiuto, e la cui speranza è nell’Eterno, suo Dio,

6 che ha fatto il cielo e la terra, il mare e tutto ciò ch’è in essi; che mantiene la fedeltà in eterno,

7 che fa ragione agli oppressi, che dà del cibo agli affamati. L’Eterno libera i prigionieri,

8 l’Eterno apre gli occhi ai ciechi, l’Eterno rialza gli oppressi, l’Eterno ama i giusti,

9 l’Eterno protegge i forestieri, solleva l’orfano e la vedova, ma sovverte la via degli empi.

Salmi 146:1-9 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.