Psalms 146:3
He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
In Context
2The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He will gather together the dispersed of Israel.
4He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:7In that time, the prophet Hanani went to Asa, the king of Judah, and he said to him: “Because you have faith in the king of Syria, and not in the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.
Psalms 62:9My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me.
Psalms 118:8I will keep your justifications. Do not utterly abandon me.
Isaiah 2:22Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.
Isaiah 31:3Egypt is man, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And so, the Lord will reach down his hand, and the helper will fall, and the one who was being helped will fall, and they will all be consumed together.
Jeremiah 17:5Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord.
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 →