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Selected Verse: Psalms 146:1 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 146:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Praise [01984] ye the LORD [03050]. Praise [01984] the LORD [03068], O my soul [05315]. |
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King James |
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Praise ye the Lord - "Ye" - all people. Margin, Hallelujah. See Psa 104:35; Psa 106:1.
Praise the Lord, O my soul - See Psa 103:1, note; Psa 104:1, note. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Instead of "bless," as in Psa 103:1; Psa 104:1, the poet of this Psalm says "praise." When he attunes his sole to the praise of God, he puts himself personally into this mood of mind, and therefore goes on to say "I will praise." He will, however, not only praise God in the song which he is beginning, but כּחיּי (vid., on Psa 63:5), fillling up his life with it, or בּעודי (prop. "in my yet-being," with the suffix of the noun, whereas עודנּי with the verbal suffix is "I still am"), so that his continued life is also a constant continued praising, viz., (and this is in the mind of the poet here, even at the commencment of the Psalm) of the God and Kings who, as being the Almighty, Eternal, and unchangeably Faithful One, is the true ground of confidence. The warning against putting trust in princes calls to mind Psa 118:8. The clause: the son of man, who has no help that he could afford, is to be understood according to Ps 60:13. The following לאדמתו shows that the poet by expression בּן־אדם combines the thoughts of Gen 2:7 and Gen 3:19. If his breath goes forth, he says, basing the untrustworthiness and feebleness of the son of Adam upon the inevitable final destiny of the son of Adam taken out of the ground, then he returns to his earth, i.e., the earth of his first beginning; cf. the more exact expression אל־עפרם, after which the εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ of the lxx is exchanged for εἰς τὸν χοῦν αὐτοῦ in 1 Macc. 2:63: On the hypothetical relation of the first future clause to the second, cf. Psa 139:8-10, Psa 139:18; Ew. 357, b. In that day, the inevitable day of death, the projects or plans of man are at once and forever at an end. The ἅπ. λεγ. עשׁתּנת describes these with the collateral notion of the subtleness and magnitude. |
1 Bless [01288] the LORD [03068], O my soul [05315]. O LORD [03068] my God [0430], thou art very [03966] great [01431]; thou art clothed [03847] with honour [01935] and majesty [01926].
1 A Psalm of David [01732]. Bless [01288] the LORD [03068], O my soul [05315]: and all that is within [07130] me, bless his holy [06944] name [08034].
1 Praise [01984] ye the LORD [03050]. O give thanks [03034] unto the LORD [03068]; for he is good [02896]: for his mercy [02617] endureth for ever [05769].
35 Let the sinners [02400] be consumed [08552] out of the earth [0776], and let the wicked [07563] be no more. Bless [01288] thou the LORD [03068], O my soul [05315]. Praise [01984] ye the LORD [03050].
18 If I should count [05608] them, they are more in number [07235] than the sand [02344]: when I awake [06974], I am still [05750] with thee.
8 If I ascend up [05266] into heaven [08064], thou art there: if I make my bed [03331] in hell [07585], behold, thou art there.
9 If I take [05375] the wings [03671] of the morning [07837], and dwell [07931] in the uttermost parts [0319] of the sea [03220];
10 Even there shall thy hand [03027] lead [05148] me, and thy right hand [03225] shall hold [0270] me.
19 In the sweat [02188] of thy face [0639] shalt thou eat [0398] bread [03899], till [05704] thou return [07725] unto the ground [0127]; for out of it wast thou taken [03947]: for dust [06083] thou [0859] art, and unto dust [06083] shalt thou return [07725].
7 And the LORD [03068] God [0430] formed [03335] man [0120] of the dust [06083] of [04480] the ground [0127], and breathed [05301] into his nostrils [0639] the breath [05397] of life [02416]; and man [0120] became a living [02416] soul [05315].
8 It is better [02896] to trust [02620] in the LORD [03068] than to put confidence [0982] in man [0120].
5 My soul [05315] shall be satisfied [07646] as with marrow [02459] and fatness [01880]; and my mouth [06310] shall praise [01984] thee with joyful [07445] lips [08193]:
1 Bless [01288] the LORD [03068], O my soul [05315]. O LORD [03068] my God [0430], thou art very [03966] great [01431]; thou art clothed [03847] with honour [01935] and majesty [01926].
1 A Psalm of David [01732]. Bless [01288] the LORD [03068], O my soul [05315]: and all that is within [07130] me, bless his holy [06944] name [08034].