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Psalm 146:1–2 – Praise while I live What happens: The psalmist resolves to praise God all his life. What it means: Worship is lifelong vocation. Joy endures in God.

Psalm 146:3–7 – Do not trust princes What happens: Human help fails; blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob who executes justice. What it means: Trust belongs to the Creator and Judge. He keeps faith forever.

Psalm 146:8–10 – The Lord lifts What happens: God opens eyes, lifts the bowed, loves the righteous, cares for strangers, upholds widows and orphans, and frustrates the wicked. What it means: God’s heart is for the vulnerable. His reign is moral and merciful.

Application

  • Put no ultimate hope in powerful people.
  • Join God in caring for the weak.

Bible

1Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

2While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

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

4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

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