Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 146

1Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah. 2I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist. 3Trust not in princes--in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance. 4His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished. 5O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope is on Jehovah his God, 6Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, Who is keeping truth to the age, 7Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry. 8Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous, 9Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down. 10Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

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