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Psalm 146
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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Footnotes
Praise the LORD, O My Soul
1Hallelujah!footnote aPraise the LORD, O my soul.
2I will praise the LORD all my life;I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3Put not your trust in princes,in mortal man, who cannot save. 4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground;on that very day his plans perish.
5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6the Maker of heaven and earth,the sea, and everything in them.He remains faithful forever. 7He executes justice for the oppressedand gives food to the hungry.The LORD sets the prisoners free, 8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind,the LORD lifts those who are weighed down,the LORD loves the righteous. 9The LORD protects foreigners;He sustains the fatherless and the widow,but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
10The LORD reigns forever,your God, O Zion, for all generations.Hallelujah!
Footnotes
- a 146:1 Or Hallelu YAH, meaning Praise the LORD; also in verse 10
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