Psalm 146: In that very day his thoughts perish

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Psalm 146

King James Version

1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.1

References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. CLARKE'S COMMENTARY - PSALMS 146 - http:// www. godrules .net/ library/ clarke/ clarkeps a146.htm
3. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary - http:// eword. gospelc om.net/ comments /psalm/mh /psalm146 .htm

ABOUT PSALM 146

This is the first of the Psalms called Hallelujah Psalms, of which there are five, and which conclude the book. No author's name is prefixed to this, either in the Hebrew or Chaldee. But the Syriac, Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and Arabic, attribute it to Haggai and Zechariah. It was probably written after the captivity, and may refer to the time when Cyrus, prejudiced by the enemies of the Jews, withdrew his order for the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, to which revocation of the royal edict the third verse may refer: Put not your trust in princes &c.²

TITLE AND SUBJECT

This and all the rest of the psalms that follow begin and end with Hallelujah, a word which puts much of God's praise into a little compass; for in it we praise him by his name Jah, the contraction of Jehovah. In this excellent psalm of praise,
I. The psalmist engages himself to praise God (v. 1, 2).
II. He engages others to trust in him, which is one necessary and acceptable way of praising him.
1. He shows why we should not trust in men (v. 3, 4).
2. Why we should trust in God (v. 5),

because of his power in the kingdom of nature (v. 6),

his dominion in the kingdom of providence (v. 7),

and his grace in the kingdom of the Messiah (v. 8, 9), that everlasting kingdom (v. 10), to which many of the Jewish writers refer this psalm, and to which therefore we should have an eye, in the singing of it.³