4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it; They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
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Commentary on Psalms 146 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 146
Ps 146:1-10. An exhortation to praise God, who, by the gracious and faithful exercise of His power in goodness to the needy, is alone worthy of implicit trust.