1 Praise ye Jah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
2 I will praise Jehovah while I live; I will sing psalms to my God while I have my being.
3 Confide not in nobles, in a son of man in whom is no salvation.
4 His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth: in that very day his purposes perish.
5 Blessed he, whose help [is] Jacob’s God (El), whose hope [is] in Jehovah his God,
6 Who made heavens and earth, the sea and all that [is] in them; the keeper of truth for ever;
7 Doing judgment for the oppressed, giving bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
8 Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth the bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;
9 Jehovah keened) stringers; orphans and widows he upholdeth; and the way of wicked ones he maketh crooked.
10 Jehovah reigneth for ever, thy God, O Zion, generation to generation. Praise ye Jah.
Notes on Psalm 146
“Praise ye Jah.” The praise of Jah, Jehovah, Jacob’s God, is urged, in contrast with men, not only as maker of heaven, earth, the sea, and all in them, but as the sure moral Governor, only to be proved and displayed perfectly in that day when Zion is the earthly center.