Psalm 146

The one who has the God of Jacob to help him is happy.
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Explanation
This is the first of five "hallelujah" psalms which close the collection of psalms. It is also in a set of the last six. See ps145.
.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.
  1 - Praise ye the Lord Each psalm, beginning with this psalm and continuing to the last one (five in all) have these words as its lead sentence.
  2 - While I live Then do we cease to praise God in death? See v4. For more on life after death, go.
  3 - Trust n princes Military or political strength cannot save us.
  4 - Thoughts From `eshtonah which appears only in this verse in the Bible. Sometimes translated "plans" but related to "thoughts" or "thinking"so the KJV is a better translation. See on ec1207 remembering that the Hebrew word for breath and for spirit is the same.
 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:
  5 - God of Jacob Why specifically Jacob? Jacob prevailed. See on ps04607.
  7 - God is fair. On "prisoners" see is5801.
 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.
  8 - Openeth the eyes The Lord has always done this spiritually for those who are willing to see je0521. The Messiah would do it physically as well mr1046.
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