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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 155 of 159
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/155/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 155. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/155/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 155. Psalm 146

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[¶0] Hallelujah

[¶1] 1 Praise, O my soul! Jehovah.

[¶2] 2 I will praise Jehovah in my life; I will sing psalms to my God, while I have being.

[¶3] 3 Confide not in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is not help.

[¶4] 4 Go forth shall his breath, He shall return to his earth, In that day perish shall his thoughts.

[¶5] 5 Blessed is he who hath for his help the God of Jacob; Whose hope is in Jehovah, his God:

[¶6] 6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them: Who keepeth truth for ever:

[¶7] 7 Who doeth judgment for those who are unrighteously oppressed: Who giveth bread to the hungry: Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

[¶8] 8 Jehovah enlighteneth the blind; Jehovah raiseth up those who are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

[¶9] 9 Jehovah keepeth the strangers; The orphan and the widow he succoureth; And the way of the ungodly he will destroy.

[¶10] 10 Reign shall Jehovah for ever: Thy God, O Zion, is from generation to generation. Hallelujah.