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Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul. See also: Psalms 103:22Psalms 103:1Psalms 104:35While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. See also: Psalms 63:4Psalms 104:33Psalms 145:1-2Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help. See also: Psalms 118:8-9Jeremiah 17:5-6Isaiah 2:22His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. See also: Ecclesiastes 12:7Psalms 104:29Genesis 2:7Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God, See also: Jeremiah 17:7-8Psalms 144:15Psalms 71:5who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; See also: Exodus 20:11Revelation 14:7Psalms 136:5-6who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners. See also: Psalms 103:6Psalms 68:6Isaiah 61:1The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous. See also: Psalms 11:7Psalms 145:14Matthew 9:30The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down. See also: Psalms 68:5Psalms 147:6Deuteronomy 10:18-19The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! See also: Psalms 10:16Exodus 15:18Revelation 11:15
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 145
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the chapter
PSALM CLXV. (LAUDA ANIMA.)
We are not to trust in men, but in God alone.
Psalms 145:1
Ver. 1. Of, &c. This addition of the Sept. intimates that these prophets would thus exhort the people to trust in Providence, and to prefer his service before worldly cares. See Ps. cxxxvi. W.
--- They might compose this psalm after Cyrus had revoked the permission to build the temple, (v. 2. and 1 Esd. i. 3. and iv. 4.) as the following psalms seem all to have been sung at the dedication of the walls. C. --- This might be the case, but the titles afford but a slender proof, and David might write this to excite himself and people to confide in God. --- In my. Heb. begins here the second verse, with the answer of the soul to the prophet's invitation. It is immortal, and promises always to praise the Lord. Bert.
↑ 1Psalms 145:3
Ver. 3. Children. Heb. "sons of Adam." the greatest prince is of the same frail condition as other men. He is not always willing, nor able to save. He must die, and all his project cease. H. --- If we could have depended on any, Cyrus seemed to be the person. Yet he has been deceived, and now forbids the building of a temple. We must, however, be grateful for the liberty which we enjoy by the goodness of God. C. --- In one Son of man (Christ) we may trust; not because he is the Son of man, but because he is the Son of God. S. Aug.
W.
↑ 3Psalms 145:4
Ver. 4. Forth. From the body, which shall be consigned to the earth from which it was taken.
Eccle. xii. 7. --- And he. Man, (C.) or each of the princes, (H.) with respect to the body. W. --- It does not refer to the spirit, which in Heb. is feminine. C. --- It is the want of faith, which causes people to confide in great ones, rather than in Providence. S. Aug. --- Thoughts. Projects of ambition, &c. C.
↑ 4Psalms 145:7
Ver. 7. Truth. Houb. "his truth," and promises. H. --- The disposition of Cyrus towards the Jews had changed, in consequence of some false insinuations of their enemies. --- Wrong. The Babylonians have been, and the Samaritans will be, punished. --- Fettered. We may hope to be freed from the dominion of the Persians. C.
↑ 7Psalms 145:8
Ver. 8. Enlighteneth. Heb. "openeth the eyes. " Sept. "gives wisdom to the blind." Many of these favours seem to be understood in a spiritual sense, and allude to the times of Christ, when these miracles were performed. Bert. Is.
xxxv. 5. Matt. xi. 5. C.
↑ 8Psalms 145:9
Ver. 9. Strangers. He charges his people to be compassionate towards such.
Ex. xxii. 21. Jam. i.
27. Bert. --- We have been captives. Ps. cxii. 9. --- Sinners, who have calumniated us, v. 7. C.
↑ 9Psalms 145:10
Ver. 10. Sion. Figure of the true Church. God is now more attached to Sion than to any other place. Bert. --- He lives for ever, and therefore alone deserves our confidence. C. --- Generation.
Heb. adds, "Alleluia," which we have in the next title, as the psalm also begins with the same word. H.
↑ 10License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses