What does Psalms Chapter 145 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded. Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times. Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Chapter breakdown

Lauda, anima has a heading of trust in God alone and an Alleluia of Aggeus and Zacharias. The soul is called to praise; the speaker will praise throughout life and sing while he has being. Trust is forbidden in princes and children of men, in whom salvation is absent. Their spirit shall go forth, they return to earth, and thoughts perish that day. Burial scenes and particular political policies are not specified.

Blessed is the one helped by Jacob’s God and hoping in the maker of heaven, earth, sea and all within them. He keeps truth forever, gives judgment to wronged people and food to hungry people, loosens fettered people, enlightens the blind, raises the cast down and loves the just. The stated enlightenment is not converted into a clinical treatment description.

He keeps strangers, will support orphan and widow and will destroy sinners’ ways. He shall reign forever, Sion’s God through generations. These future statements do not become completed assistance or a postexilic rebuilding episode.

The story inside

Opening: Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded. Development: Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times. Conclusion: Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Lessons worth keeping

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Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded.
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Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times.
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Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 66995–67002
145:2. Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes: 145:3. In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. 145:4. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.
Lines 67010–67015
145:7. Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: 145:8. The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.
Lines 67017–67021
145:9. The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. 145:10. The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.