Psalms 146

The design of this Psalm is to persuade men to trust in God, and in him alone.

PRaise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God, while I have any being.

Put not your trust in princes In men of greatest wealth and power, in whose favour men are very prone to trust., nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help Who are utterly unable frequently to give you that help which they promise, and you expect..

His breath goeth forth, he returneth In his body, Eccles. 12. 7. to his earth To that earth from which all mankind, Princes not excepted, had their original.: in that very day As soon as ever he is dead. his thoughts All his designs and endeavours either for himself or for others. perish.

Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help; whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever Both because he liveth for ever to fulfil his promises, and because he is eternally and unchangeably faithful.:

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed, which giveth food to the hungry: the LORD looseth the prisoners.

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind Either, 1. the eyes of their mind, which he enlightens and directs in doubtful and difficult cases: or, 2. their bodily eyes; which he did abundantly by his Son Jesus Christ., the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down, the LORD loveth the righteous Even when he does afflict them, which also he does out of love, Heb. 12. 6..

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down He overthroweth their goings, as the phrase is Psal. 140. 4. He maketh them to lose their way; he not only frustrateth their plots and enterprises, but turneth them against themselves. This and all the foregoing sentences are so many arguments to encourage all good men to trust in God in all their straits and afflictions..

The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.