THE PSALMS.
PSALM 146.( B) Lauda, anima mea.
( 1) PRAISE the Lord, O my soul, while I live will I praise the Lord: yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God.
20 put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man for there is no help in them.
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3 For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts( 2) perish.
4 Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help: and whose hope is in the Lord his God( 3).
5 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: who keepeth his promise for ever.
1. The Church is taught to prolong the praise of Jehovah,
and not to trust in the power of the world.
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2. Literally, his glitterings, those advantages as nothing in the sight of God.
3. All that follows, is descriptive and prophetic of Messiah.
6 Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong who feedeth the hungry.
7 The Lord looseth men out of prison: the Lord giveth sight to the blind( 4).
4. David anticipates the fulfilment of these prophecies, which Christ appropriates to himself.
8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen: the Lord careth for the righteous.
9 The Lord careth for the strangers( 5); he defendeth the fatherless and widow: as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it tection. Deut. 14. 29. upside down( 6).
5. Or, the proselytes of the gate, who, were destitute of pro
10 The Lord thy God, O Sion, shall be King for evermore: and throughout all generations.
6. He turneth it aside;
He maketh it to work to a different end
from that intended.
B. This Psalm, probably composed by David, has a visible aspect unto the eternal Son of God, in his incarnation, as is acknowledged by the Jews themselves. This, and the four following Psalms, in the Hebrew, begin and end with Hallelujah," Praise ye the Lord." Hitherto, in this divine Book, we have been presented with chequered scenes of distress, and mercy; henceforth we seem to be no longer in sorrow on earth, but in heaven, mingling, with celestial spirits in songs of praise!