CHAPTER 146

AUTHOR UNKNOWN: PRAISE TO GOD, MIGHTY CREATOR

¹Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. (As the five Books of the Psalms correspond to the five Books of the Pentateuch, so the five closing Hallelujah Psalms also correspond. This Psalm is, therefore, the Genesis Psalm. It recalls the forming of man and the creation of the worlds.)

²While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. (Each Psalm begins and ends in the Hebrew Text with the word, Hallelujah. They will be sung by the happy subjects of Christs future Kingdom.)

³Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁴His breath goes forth, he returns to his Earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. (The great struggle in the Christian is always concerning the trusting of man or God. These very Verses tell us that modern, humanistic psychology holds no help.)

⁵Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God. (The singer contrasts man and the Messiah, showing the inability of the one and the sufficiency of The Other as the Saviour. Thus, man: faithless, powerless, and mortal; Messiah: Faithful, All-Powerful, Eternal.

The Old Testament title, God of Jacob, corresponds to the New Testament title, God of all Grace. He met Jacob when he deserved nothing and promised him everything.)

⁶Which made Heaven, and Earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth forever (Verses 6 through 10 contrast what God can do versus what man can do):

⁷Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners (God uses His Power to lift up man and set him free, while man, if he has any power, generally uses it to enrich himself):

⁸The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them who are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous (since this Passage is very similar to Verse 14 of the previous Psalm, and inasmuch as David wrote that Psalm, quite possibly he wrote this one, as well):

⁹The LORD preserves the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked He turns upside down. (All that is portrayed in these Passages could have been the way of Earth for all these millennia. Instead, man, in his rebellion, has made it mostly a Hell instead of a Heaven. However, the way of the wicked is just about over, and then the Way of the Lord will be the covering of the entire world.)

¹⁰The LORD shall reign forever, even your God, O Zion, unto all generations, Praise you the LORD. (This Kingdom that is soon to come will not be the government of man, which comes and goes, but will, in effect, last forever.)