Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, in any of the mighty ones of the earth, nor in the son of man, in any frail human being, in whom there is no help, Psalms 60:11.
Put not your trust in princes, in any of the mighty ones of the earth, nor in the son of man, in any frail human being, in whom there is no help, Psalms 60:11.
Verse Psalms 146:3. _PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES_] This may refer, as has been stated above, to Cyrus, who had revoked his edict for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Perhaps they had begun to suppose t...
PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES - Rely on God rather than on man, however exalted he may be. There is a work of protection and salvation which no man, however exalted he may be, can perform for you; a w...
PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...
CXLVI. This Ps., like the remaining Pss. to the end of the Psalter, begins and closes with the word Hallelujah (Praise Yah). These Pss. may originally have formed a collection by themselves. The theme...
TRUST. confidence. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. NO HELP. no salvation, or saving help. Compare Psalms 33:16; Psalms 60:11....
Cp. Psalms 118:8-9, and see notes there for illustration of the kind of circumstances which may have suggested the warning. Cp. also Jeremiah 17:5 ff. Heathen princes doubtless are meant. It is possib...
The central thought of the Ps., expressed in Psalms 146:5 ff., is prefaced by a warning against the temptation to rely upon the favour and protection of men, however powerful. Princes to-day, they may...
PSALMS 146 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Twelve Reasons for Trusting in Jehovah. ANALYSIS Having, in Response to the Public Reader's Invitation, stirred up his Own Soul to Praise Jehovah all his Life Long (Psa...
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, (NOR) IN THE SON OF MAN, IN WHOM THERE IS NO HELP - rather, 'no salvation' (Jeshuhah,...
146:3 man, (c-10) _ Adam_ ....
Here begins the final group, Psalms 146-150, known as the 'Hallelujah' Pss., because each begins and ends with that word, meaning, 'Praise ye the Lord.' They sum up the joy of the returned exiles, and...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ *TRUST ONLY IN GOD PSALMS 146 THE FIRST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "*Believe also in me" ...
PRINCES — The thought of Psalms 118:8 is here elaborated, with distinct allusion to Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19 (Comp. 1Ma. 2:63.) The verse, no doubt, was in Shakespeare’s mind when he made Wolsey say:...
אַל ־תִּבְטְח֥וּ בִ נְדִיבִ֑ים בְּ בֶן ־אָדָ֓
Psalms 146:1 THE long-drawn music of the Psalter closes with five Hallelujah psalms, in which, with constantly swelling diapason, all themes of praise are pealed forth, until the melodious thunder of...
THE LORD LOVETH THE RIGHTEOUS Psalms 146:1-10 This and the four following psalms are the “Hallelujah” Psalms. Each begins with that word. They were probably composed for use in the second Temple....
We now come to the final psalms of adoration, each one of which opens and closes with the great call to praise. “Hallelujah, praise the Lord.” The theme of this first is that of the sufficiency of God...
Put not your trust in (b) princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help. (b) That God may have the whole praise: in which he forbids all vain confidence showing that by nature we are m...
_Bruises. God delivered the captives, after chastising them, Deuteronomy xxxii. 39. (Calmet) --- He gives life to the penitent, as Christ healed the sick, &c., Isaias lxi. 1. (Berthier)_...
In order to heighten the subject, the Psalmist draws a comparative statement between the eternal, unfading, unchanging existence of Jehovah; and the momentary, perishing, and fluctuating condition of...
3._Trust not in princes _This admonition is appropriately inserted, for one means by which men blind themselves is that of involving their minds through a number of inventions, and being thus prevente...
Psalms 146 introduces the full final praises: the first, the outpouring of the heart in praise to Him as the God of Jacob, celebrating what He is, and the comfort of trusting Him, the Creator, the Hel...
PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES,.... Not in foreign princes, in alliances and confederacies with them; nor in any at home. David did not desire his people to put their trust in him, nor in his nobles an...
Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help. Ver. 3. _Put not your trust in princes_] But in God alone; this being a principal piece of his praise; it is a kind...
_Put not your trust in princes_ However great their wealth or power may be; _nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help_ “Earthly princes, if they have the will, often want the power, even to pro...
HELP: Or, salvation...
1-4 If it is our delight to praise the Lord while we live, we shall certainly praise him to all eternity. With this glorious prospect before us, how low do worldly pursuits seem! There is a Son of ma...
IN PRINCES; in men of greatest wealth and power, in whose favour men are very prone to trust. IN WHOM THERE IS NO HELP; who are utterly unable frequently to give you that help which they promise, and...
Psalms 146:3 trust H982 (H8799) princes H5081 son H1121 man H120 help H8668 Put - Psalms 62:9
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
Psalms 146:1. _Praise ye the LORD._ Or, «Hallelujah.» I am sorry to see that great word, Hallelujah, Hallelu-Jah, praise to Jah, Jehovah, become so hackneyed as it is, by talk about «Hallelujah lasse...
CONTENTS: The psalmist engages himself to praise God and exhorts others to trust and praise Him. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There should be no exemption from the service of praising God....
This, and the two following, are called the Hallelujah psalms of Haggai and of Zechariah the prophets, being composed after the captivity. Psalms 146:10. _The Lord shall reign for ever; even thy God,...
_Put not your trust in princes._ DEPENDENCE ON MAN FORBIDDEN I. Mankind are naturally disposed to do this. The young depend upon the old, and the old upon the young. The poor depend upon the rich, an...
_Praise ye the Lord._ HALLELUJAH I. The grandest resolution (verses 1, 2). 1. The author’s belief in the existence of his soul. When this conviction comes, the whole universe is transfigured, and G...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 146:1. Because God rules everything, his suffering people can have hope. ⇐...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 146:3 It is useless to put one’s TRUST IN PRINCES, who are mortals. Governments and armies have their proper place, but their merely human power is not ultimately decisive in the...
INTRODUCTION In the Hebrew this Psalm has no superscription. The Septuagint has the superscription, “Hallelujah. Of Haggai and Zechariah;” and is followed in this respect by the Vulgate and the Syriac...
EXPOSITION THE psalter ends with a cluster of "Hallelujah Psalms," five in number, all of them both beginning and ending with the phrase. In the Hebrew none of them has any" title;" but it is generall...
Now the final psalms or the Hallel psalms. They begin with hallelujah and end with hallelujah in the Hebrew. Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. While I live I will praise the LORD: I will...
Isaiah 2:22; Isaiah 31:3; Isaiah 37:6; Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 17:6;...