The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
David stirs himself and us to praise God, then warns against the near-universal disease: we deceive ourselves by trusting in princes and great men, who have no power to save. The remedy is plain, center all hope in God alone, and He will show you His power and mercy.
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Commenting on Psalm 146:1-10
The Lord preserveth the strangers. Many monarchs hunted aliens down, or transported them from place to place, or left them as outlaws unworthy of the rights of man; but Jehovah made special laws for their shelter within his domain. In this country the stranger was, a little while ago, looked upon as a vagabond, —a kind of wild beast to be avoided if not to...
Happy is the one who takes God for his God and serves Him, and whose hope rests in Him when all other supports fail. Such a person has an interest in God's attributes and promises, engaged entirely for him, relief in public distress, provision in personal want.
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Commenting on Psalm 146:5-10