146:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my a soul.
(a) He stirs up himself and all his affections to praise
God.
146:3 Put not your trust in b princes, [nor] in the son of
man, in whom [there is] no help.
(b) That God may have the whole praise: in which he
forbids all vain confidence showing that by nature we
are more inclined to put our trust in creatures, than
in God the Creator.
146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that
very day his c thoughts perish.
(c) As their vain opinions, by which they flattered
themselves and so imagined wicked enterprises.
146:6 Which made d heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that
therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever:
(d) He encourages the godly to trust only in the Lord,
both in his power's ability to deliver them from all
danger, and for his promise sake, as his will is most
ready to do it.
146:7 Which executeth judgment e for the oppressed: which
giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
(e) Whose faith and patience for a while he tries but at
length he punishes the adversaries, that he may be
known to be the judge of the world.
146:8 The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth
them that are bowed down: the LORD f loveth the
righteous:
(f) Though he visits them with affliction, hunger,
imprisonment and such like, yet his fatherly love and
pity never fails them, yea rather to his these are
signs of his love.
146:9 The LORD preserveth the g strangers; he relieveth the
fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth
upside down.
(g) Meaning, all who are destitute of worldly means and
help.
146:10 The LORD shall h reign for ever, [even] thy God, O
Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
(h) He assures the Church that God reigns forever for the
preservation of the same.
