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Psalms 146

1 David declareth his great zeal that he hathe to praise God, 3 And teacheth, not to trust in man, but only in God almightie, 7 Which delivereth the afflicted, 9 Defendeth the strangers, comforteth the fatherless, and the widows, 10 And reigneth for ever.
1.aPraise thou the Lord, ô my soul.
2.I wil praise the Lord during my life: as long as I have anie being, I wil sing unto my God.
3.Put not your trust in bprinces, nor in the sonne of man, for there is none helpe in him.
4.His breath departeth, and he returneth to his earth: then his cthoughts perish.
5.Blessed is he, that hath the God of Jaakób for his helpe, whose hope is in the Lord his God.
6.Which made dheaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which kepeth his fidelitie for ever:
7.Which executeth justice efor the oppressed: which giveth bread to the hungrie: the Lord looseth the prisoners.
8.The Lord giveth sight to the blinde: the Lord raiseth up the croked: the Lord floveth the righteous.
9.The Lord kepeth the gstrangers: he relieveth the fatherless and widowe: but he overthroweth the way of the wicked.
10.The Lord shal hreign for ever: ô Zión, thy God endureth from generacion to generacion. Praise ye the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
He stirs up himself, and all his affections to praise God.
3-b.
That God may have the whole praise wherein he forbids all vain confidence, showing that of nature we are more inclined to put our trust in creatures, then in God the Creator.
4-c.
As their vain opinions, whereby they flattered themselves, and so imagined wicked enterprises.
6-d.
He encourages the godly to trust only in the Lord, both for that his power is able to deliver them from all danger, and for his promise sake his will is most ready to do it.
7-e.
Whose faith & patience for a while he tries, but at length he punishes the adversaries, that he may be known to be judge of the world.
8-f.
Though he visit them by affliction, hunger, imprisonment and such like, yet his Fatherly love and pity never fails them, yea, rather to his these are signs of his love.
9-g.
Meaning all them, that are destitute of worldly means and succour.
10-f.
He assures the Church that God reigns for ever for the preservation of the same.