Psalms 146
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Why we should not trust in men
Verse 1
WEB Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
KJV Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
TSK Praise ye the Lord: ps 105:45; Praise the Lord: ps 103:1,22, ps 104:1,35
Verse 2
WEB While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
KJV While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
TSK While I live: ps 63:4, ps 71:14,15, ps 104:33, ps 145:1,2, re 7:9-17
Verse 3
WEB Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
KJV Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
TSK Put: ps 62:9, ps 118:8,9, isa 2:22, isa 31:3, isa 37:6, jer 17:5,6
Verse 4
WEB His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
KJV His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
TSK His breath: ps 104:29, ge 2:7, ge 6:17, job 14:10, job 17:1, job 27:3, da 5:23; he returneth: ps 90:3, ge 3:19, ec 12:7; his thoughts: job 14:21, job 17:11, isa 2:22, la 4:20, 1co 2:6
Why we should trust in God
Verse 5
WEB Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
KJV Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
TSK Happy: ps 33:12, ps 84:12, ps 144:15, de 33:29; the God: ps 46:7,11, ps 84:8, ge 32:24-29, ge 50:17, ex 3:6; whose: ps 39:7, ps 71:5, jer 17:7,8, 1pe 1:21
Verse 6
WEB who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
KJV Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
TSK made heaven: ps 33:6, ps 136:5,6, ps 148:5,6, ge 1:1, jer 10:11,12, jer 32:17, joh 1:3, col 1:16, re 14:7; the sea: ps 95:5, ex 20:11, job 38:8-11, pr 8:28,29; keepeth truth: ps 89:2,33, ps 98:3, ps 100:5, de 7:9, da 9:4, mic 7:20, joh 10:34, tit 1:2, heb 6:18
Verse 7
WEB who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
KJV Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
TSK executeth: ps 9:16, ps 10:14,15,18, ps 12:5, ps 72:4, ps 103:6, pr 22:22,23, pr 23:10,11, isa 9:4, mal 3:5; which giveth food: ps 107:9, ps 136:25, ps 145:15,16, jer 31:14, lu 1:53, lu 9:17; looseth: ps 68:6, ps 105:17-20, ps 107:10,14-16, ps 142:7, isa 61:1, zec 9:11,12, lu 4:18, ac 5:19, ac 16:26
Verse 8
WEB Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
KJV The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
TSK openeth: isa 35:5, isa 42:16,18, mt 9:30, mt 11:5, lu 18:41,42, joh 9:7-33, ac 26:18, eph 1:18, 1pe 2:9; raiseth: ps 145:14, ps 147:6, lu 13:11-13, 2co 7:6; loveth: ps 11:7, de 33:3, joh 14:21-23, joh 16:27
Verse 9
WEB Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
KJV The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
TSK preserveth: ps 68:5, de 10:18,19, de 16:11, pr 15:25, jer 49:11, ho 14:3, mal 3:5, jas 1:27; the way: ps 18:26, ps 83:13-17, ps 145:20, ps 147:6, 2sa 15:31, 2sa 17:23, es 5:14, es 7:10, es 9:25, pr 4:19, job 5:12-14, 1co 3:19
Verse 10
WEB Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!
KJV The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
TSK reign: ps 10:16, ps 145:13, ex 15:18, isa 9:7, da 2:44, da 6:26, da 7:14, re 11:15; thy God: ps 147:12, isa 12:6, isa 40:9, isa 52:7, joe 3:17