Psalms 146:5
O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
In Context
4His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
6Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,
Cross References
Genesis 32:24And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;
Exodus 3:6He saith also, 'I [am] the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob;' and Moses hideth his face, for he is afraid to look towards God.
Psalms 20:8They — they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.
Psalms 39:7And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.
Psalms 46:8Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,
Psalms 71:5For Thou [art] my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.
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 →