Psalms 146

The AIT Bible

My Soul Will Praise Yahweh

1Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, O my soul!

2I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will make music to my God while I still exist.

3Do not put your trust in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

4His breath goes out, he returns to his ground; on that day his plans perish.

5Blessed is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Yahweh his God—

6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;

7who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives bread to the hungry. Yahweh sets prisoners free;

8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind, Yahweh lifts up those who are bowed down, Yahweh loves the righteous;

9Yahweh watches over the sojourners; he sustains the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he makes crooked.

10Yahweh will reign forever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Praise Yah!

Where this passage connects across Scripture — each link typed and reasoned, part of the AIT Bible Nexus Chart.

parallel Psalms 104:33 — Near-identical vow to praise Yahweh with music throughout one's life.

allusion Genesis 3:19 — Echoes the return of mortals to the ground/dust from which they came.
allusion Psalms 118:8 — Same contrast: refusing trust in princes/mortals versus taking refuge in Yahweh.
allusion Psalms 104:29 — Shared imagery of breath departing and return to the ground/dust at death.
thematic Isaiah 31:1 — Both stress that human help is mortal and unreliable in contrast to God.
thematic Jeremiah 17:5 — Both warn against trusting in humankind/flesh rather than God.

allusion Acts 4:24 — Prayer addressing God as maker of heaven, earth, sea, and all in them draws on this line.
echoed in Acts 4:23 — Shared description of God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them.
echoed in Acts 14:8 — The living God who made heaven, earth, and sea echoes the psalm's praise of the maker of heaven and earth and sea.
allusion Exodus 20:11 — Same formula naming Yahweh as Maker of heaven, earth, sea, and all in them.
allusion Exodus 15:18 — Shares the acclamation that Yahweh will reign forever.
allusion Luke 4:18 — Jesus' Nazareth reading combines the same acts—release of prisoners and sight to the blind—as marks of God's deliverance.
thematic Deuteronomy 10:18 — Same triad of Yahweh's care for the sojourner, orphan, and widow.
thematic Psalms 68:1 — Shared theme of God setting prisoners free.
thematic Revelation 11:15 — Both proclaim the eternal reign of the Lord/God from generation to generation.