The one who has the God of Jacob to help him is happy.
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¶ 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. |
1 -
Praise
ye the Lord Each psalm, beginning with this psalm and continuing
to the last one (five in all) have these words as its lead sentence.
2 - While I live Then do we cease to praise God in death? See v4. For more on life after death, go. 3 - Trust n princes Military or political strength cannot save us. 4 - Thoughts From `eshtonah which appears only in this verse in the Bible. Sometimes translated "plans" but related to "thoughts" or "thinking"so the KJV is a better translation. See on ec1207 remembering that the Hebrew word for breath and for spirit is the same. |
| 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: |
5 -
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of Jacob Why specifically Jacob? Jacob prevailed. See on ps04607.
7 - God is fair. On "prisoners" see is5801. |
| 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. |
8 - Openeth the eyes The Lord has always done this spiritually for those who are willing to see je0521. The Messiah would do it physically as well mr1046. |
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