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📚Praise the LORD 📖! Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2 📚While I live I will praise
the LORD.
I will sing praises to my God
while I have being.
3 📚Do not put your trust
in princes,
or in a son of man,
in whom there is
no help.
4 📚His spirit goes out;
he returns to his ground 📖;
in that very day his plans perish.
5 📚Blessed 📖 is he who
has the God of Jacob 📖
as his help,
whose hope is in the LORD
his God,
6 📚Who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in it,
who preserves truth forever,
7 📚Who executes justice for
the oppressed,
who gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets the prisoners free.
8 📚The LORD opens the eyes of
the blind.
The LORD lifts up those who are
bowed down.
The LORD loves the righteous.
9 📚The LORD watches over the foreigners.
He gives relief to the fatherless
and widow,
but the way of the wicked he turns
upside down.
10 📚The LORD will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the LORD.
146:6-10 These verses give the reasons why they are blessed who have the God of Jacob as their help.
He is the almighty Creator Who is completely faithful and Who cannot be hindered from fulfilling His promises to His people (v 6; Ps 18:25; 108:4; 117:2; Deut 7:9).
He is on the side of the hungry, the poor, the oppressed (v 7; Ps 103:6; 74:21; Isa 42:6-7; Luke 4:18-19).
He shows infinite compassion especially toward the righteous, the needy and helpless (vs 8,9; Ps 10:18; Ex 22:22; Lev 19:34; 10:18; Matt 9:29-30; 12:22; Luke 13:10-13; 2 Cor 4:4-6; Jam 1:27).
And He is the eternal King. Earth’s princes go to the dust and their thoughts perish, but not God and His thoughts (v 10; Ps 33:11). His thoughts will stand forever. Happy indeed are those who have this God, the God of Jacob, the one true God, as their God.⚜