Psalm 146:8 NIV,NKJV

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 146:8

146:8 The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD {f} loveth the righteous:(f) Though he visits them with 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. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 146:1-10

Psalms 135:0 Praises God for choosing Jacob (Psalms 135:1-4 ), extols His power in the natural world (Psalms 135:5-7 ), and in the deliverance of His people from Egypt (Psalms 135:8-9 ) and bringing them into the promised land (Psalms 135:10-12 ). All this is in contrast to the vanity of idols (Psalms 135:13-18 ). Psalms 136:0 Is of the same character as the preceding, but is notable for the chorus attached to each verse a chorus with which we have become familiar in other psalms (Psalms 106:1... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Psalms 146:1-10

The Grand Doxology Psalms 146-150 How could the Book of Psalms end but in this way? Psalms cannot end in prose. Whether the arrangement is mechanical or inspired, it is the best possible. There is a fitness of things, and that fitness is realised in this peroration. It is as if a great broad river had suddenly become a resounding cascade; these five psalms are the final cataract. The Psalmist will have everything pressed into the choir. He will not have a small band. He ranges creation... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 146:5-10

There can be no hesitation to determine to whom these verses refer. The God of Jacob, is God's Covenant name in Christ. And the offices that covenant God hath performed, and is performing, as plainly manifest the Lord Jesus. See Isaiah 61:1 , compared with Luke 4:18-19 . And he that in the days of his flesh opened the eyes of the blind; and now in the day of his power openeth the eyes of the soul, is the King of Zion upon his holy hill; and will be Zion's Husband, Lord, and Redeemer, forever... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 146:8

Clouds. This is represented as something wonderful, (Job v. 9., and xxxvii. 6.) though conformable to the laws of nature. The preservation of things is like a new creation. (Calmet) --- And the herb, &c. Herbam, (Psalm ciii. 14.; Haydock) is now wanting in Hebrew, as it was in the days of St. Jerome and the Chaldean, though the Septuagint, Aquila, &c., read it, and it is not probable that they would borrow it from another psalm. (Berthier) --- Their copies must therefore have varied.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 146:5-10

5-10 The psalmist encourages us to put confidence in God. We must hope in the providence of God for all we need as to this life, and in the grace of God for that which is to come. The God of heaven became a man that he might become our salvation. Though he died on the cross for our sins, and was laid in the grave, yet his thoughts of love to us did not perish; he rose again to fulfil them. When on earth, his miracles were examples of what he is still doing every day. He grants deliverance to... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 146:1-10

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 faithful exercise of His power, especially in acts of kindness to the needy. v. 1. Praise ye the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul, this invitation, addressed to himself, placing the poet in the right mood to continue his hymn with all the vigor of a heart charged with the consciousness of God's... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 146:1-10

Psalms 146:01 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.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... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 146:1-10

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. In the Septuagint this psalm is ascribed to Zechariah and Haggai. The key to it is Psalms 146:5 , which is the last of the twenty-six “Blesseds” in the Psalter. What can bring more blessedness into life than the recognition of Jehovah as Help and Hope? Psalms 146:6-10 emphasizes the present tense... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 146:1-10

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 as the Helper of His people. It opens with the personal note of determination to praise (vv. Psa 146:1-2 ). As a background the inability of man to help is declared. He is not to be trusted, for “his breath goeth forth.” In contrast with this helplessness the strength of Jehovah is celebrated as... read more