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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 146:2-4

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 princes and every breathing creature. Reader! contemplate this, and learn from it what the scriptures hold forth concerning it, Psalms 102:1.

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See also Psalms 146:2-4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 146:2. _WHILE I LIVE WILL I PRAISE_] The true feeling of a heart overpowered with a sense of God's goodness. _WHILE I HAVE ANY BEING._] בעודי _beodi_, in my continuance, in my progressio...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHILE I LIVE WILL I PRAISE THE LORD ... - See the notes at Psalms 104:33, where the same language occurs substantially as in this verse: “I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will sing prais...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Almost identical with Psalms 104:33....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. WHILE I LIVE WILL I PRAISE THE LORD; I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO MY GOD WHILE I HAVE ANY BEING - (.)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ *TRUST ONLY IN GOD PSALMS 146 THE FIRST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "*Believe also in me" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PRAISE. — Following Psalms 103:1; Psalms 103:22; Psalms 104:33, “praise” being substituted for “bless.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲהַלְלָ֣ה יְהוָ֣ה בְּ חַיָּ֑י אֲזַמְּרָ֖ה לֵֽ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      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....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Jerusalem. After the captivity, (Worthington) or at the beginning of David's reign, when he had taken Sion, and Israel acknowledged his dominion, 2 Kings v. It may also allude to the Church, (John xi...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE PRAISE BOOK OF THE JEWISH CHURCH_ ‘I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.’ Psalms 146:2 Consider the glory and the use of the Book of Psalms. I. THINK, FIRST, OF THE RARENESS...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHILE I LIVE WILL I PRAISE THE LORD,.... As he had good reason to do, since he had his life from him, and was upheld in it by him; who also favoured him with the mercies and comforts of life; and that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Ver. 2. _While I live will I praise the Lord_] George Carpenter, the Bavarian martyr, being desired by som...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A HALLELUJAH TO THE TRUE HELPER. This psalm, whose author is not known, is the first of the five Hallelujah Psalms with which the psalter closes, an invitation to praise the Lord for the merciful and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    While I live, will I praise the Lord, the believer's whole life being filled with songs of thanksgiving to Him whose compassion is new every morning. I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO MY GOD WHILE I HAVE ANY B...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 146:2 live H2416 praise H1984 (H8762) LORD H3068 praises H2167 (H8762) God H430 While I live -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 146:1. Because God rules everything, his suffering people can have hope. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Psalms 104:33; Psalms 145:1; Psalms 145:2; Psalms 63:4; Psalms 71:14

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