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Psalm 146 King James Version (with Apocrypha)

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)

1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5 Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God: 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is:] which keepeth truth for ever: 7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: 8 The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 10 The LORD shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalms 103:22–104:1; Psalm 103:1; Psalm 104:35; Psalm 105:45
  2. 2 Psalm 63:4; Psalm 104:33; Psalm 145:1–2; Psalm 71:14–15; Revelation 7:9–17
  3. 3 Psalm 118:8–9; Jeremiah 17:5–6; Isaiah 2:22; Psalm 108:12; Isaiah 31:3
  4. 4 Ecclesiastes 12:7; Psalm 104:29; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 2:6
  5. 5 Jeremiah 17:7–8; Psalm 144:15; Psalm 71:5; Psalm 33:12; Psalm 84:12
  6. 6 Revelation 14:7; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 136:5–6; Psalm 100:5; Genesis 1:1
  7. 7 Psalm 103:6; Psalm 68:6; Isaiah 61:1; Proverbs 22:22–23; Zechariah 9:11–12
  8. 8 Psalm 11:7; Psalm 145:14; Matthew 9:30; Acts 26:18; Isaiah 35:5
  9. 9 Psalm 68:5; Deuteronomy 10:18–19; Psalm 147:6; Exodus 22:21–22; Malachi 3:5
  10. 10 Psalm 10:16; Exodus 15:18; Revelation 11:15; Daniel 6:26; Isaiah 12:6

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXLV)

    The title is, "Praise, to David himself." Praise to Christ Himself. And since He is called David, who came to us of the seed of David, yet He was our King, ruling us, and bringing us into His kingdom, therefore "Praise to David himself" is understood to mean, Praise to Christ Himself.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 146:8 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XI, Chapters XXVIII–XXXI)

    Oh, how exalted art Thou, and yet the humble in heart are Thy dwelling-place; for Thou raisest up those that are bowed down, and they whose exaltation Thou art fall not.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 146:4 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVI)

    For concerning our soul the Scripture says, His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth: and of the same soul it says again, Which formeth the spirit of man within him.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  4. Quotes verse 146:6 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book II, Chapters IV–VI)

    Our God Himself, Whom we glorify as Three in One, created the heaven and the earth and all that they contain, and brought all things out of nothing into being: some He made out of no pre-existing basis of matter, such as heaven, earth, air, fire, water: and the rest out of these elements that He had created, such …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)

  5. Quotes verse 146:6 Augustine of Hippo, Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount (Book II, Chapters XXI–XXII)

    … are good, but temporal, and pertaining to this feeble life: and whoever that is evil gives them, does not give of his own; for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is. How much reason, therefore, there is for the hope that God will give us good …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)