Psalms 146

Trust in God, Not Rulers

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Overview

Psalm 146 opens with a personal vow to praise God for one's entire life, warns against placing trust in mortal rulers whose breath returns to dust, pronounces a beatitude upon those who hope in the Creator, celebrates Yahweh's concrete acts of justice on behalf of the oppressed, the blind, the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner, and seals all with the proclamation that God's reign endures forever.

Passages

1–2Opening Call to Lifelong Praise 3–4Dust and Dominion: The Folly of Misplaced Trust 5–6The Blessedness of Trusting in the Creator God 7–9God's Saving Works for the Vulnerable 10The Eternal Reign of God and Closing Doxology

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Psalms 146

¹Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.

²While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

³Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

⁴His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

⁵Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God,

⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

⁷who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

⁸Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

⁹Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

¹⁰Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!

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