While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
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
While I live will I praise the Lord. I shall not live here for ever. This mortal life will find a finis in death; but while it lasts I will laud the Lord my God. I cannot tell how long or short my life may be; but every hour of it shall be given to the praises of my God.
David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising God, that it was enough for him to see that his priests and people did it, but that he needed not to do it himself in his own person.
Commenting on Psalm 146:1-4