Psalms · Chapter 146 · 10 verses
Psalms 146
About this chapter
Psalms 146 — Post-Exilic Period
Anonymous — Worship leader or poet from Israel's temple tradition. Set in Temple in Jerusalem. A passionate call to worship that contrasts trusting in human leaders versus trusting in God alone. The psalmist warns against putting hope in mortal princes who will die, then celebrates God as the eternal Creator who helps the oppressed, feeds the hungry, and cares for society's most vulnerable people.
“Psalms 146:3” — 146:3
Pure joy in declaring God as the only trustworthy source of help and hope.
Read when: Read this when you're tempted to put your ultimate trust in human leaders or systems instead of God.
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, each 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 the way of the wicked he turns upside down. 10Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!