Psalms 146:2
The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He will gather together the dispersed of Israel.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
In Context
3He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.
Cross References
Judges 5:3Listen, O kings! Pay attention, O princes! It is I, it is I, who will sing to the Lord. I will sing a psalm to the Lord, the God of Israel!
Psalms 71:14He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.
Psalms 145:1Alleluia. Of Haggai and Zachariah.
Revelation 7:9After these things, I saw a great crowd, which no one could number, from all the nations and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 146:2-5
The Divine Bounty. 1 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. David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising… Read the whole commentary →