Verse 2. While I live will I praise] The true feeling of a heart overpowered with a sense of God’s goodness.

While I have any being.] beodi, in my continuance, in my progression, my eternal existence. This is very expressive.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

While I live will I praise the Lord,…. As he had good reason to do, since he had his life from him, and was upheld in it by him; who also favoured him with the mercies and comforts of life; and that every day, being renewed to him every morning, and continued all the days of his life; which determined him throughout the whole of it to praise the Lord: nay, he had his spiritual life from him, with all the blessings of it; which are lasting, everlasting ones, and had hope of eternal life with him;

I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being; or “while I am” l; not only in this world, but in the world to come; for men have a being or existence after death, and the saints have a most comfortable and happy one then; and will be more capable of singing praises to their incarnate God, and which will be their work to all eternity; see

Ps 104:33.

l “dum fuero”, Pagninus; “in adhuc me”, Montanus; “quamdiu ero”, Cocceius; , Sept. “quamdiu sum”, Schmidt, Ethiopic version; so Ainsworth.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

2. While I have any being Hebrew, in my continuance. An allusion to the life after death, according to the simple and comprehensive language usually employed to set forth the idea of immortality.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In order to heighten the subject, the Psalmist draws a comparative statement between the eternal, unfading, unchanging existence of Jehovah; and the momentary, perishing, and fluctuating condition of princes and every breathing creature. Reader! contemplate this, and learn from it what the scriptures hold forth concerning it, Psa 102 .

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Psa 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Ver. 2. While I live will I praise the Lord ] George Carpenter, the Bavarian martyr, being desired by some godly brethren, that when he was burning in the fire he would give them some sign of his constance, answered, Let this be a sure sign unto you of my faith and perseverance in the truth, quod usque dum os aperire, aut certe hiscere licebit, that so long as I am able to hold open my mouth, or to whisper, I will never cease to praise God, and to profess his truth. Id quod et fecit, saith mine author, that which also he did; and so did many other martyrs besides (Scultet. Annal. dec. 2, p. 110).

While I have any being ] Either in this world or in the next; for then also, and much more, I shall praise God.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

While I live: Psa 63:4, Psa 71:14, Psa 71:15, Psa 104:33, Psa 145:1, Psa 145:2, Rev 7:9-17

Reciprocal: Deu 12:1 – all the days 2Sa 22:50 – I will sing 1Ch 29:10 – David blessed 1Ch 29:20 – Now bless Neh 9:5 – bless Psa 9:1 – praise Psa 30:12 – I will Psa 52:9 – praise Psa 61:8 – sing Psa 71:8 – General Psa 86:12 – praise Psa 103:1 – Bless Psa 108:1 – I will Psa 118:28 – my God Isa 25:1 – thou art Isa 38:19 – the living Dan 6:20 – servest Zec 8:21 – I will Joh 16:22 – and your Phi 4:4 – alway

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

THE PRAISE BOOK OF THE JEWISH CHURCH

I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Psa 146:2

Consider the glory and the use of the Book of Psalms.

I. Think, first, of the rareness and preciousness of that unique gift to the Church.The Hebrews characteristic was his religion, and not his literature. The Hebrew race left behind it a trophy corresponding to this characteristic. It was not a code of laws, embodying the great issues of justice, though Moses was of the seed of Abraham. It was not a volume of poetry, to whose immortal pages the centuries add imperishable beauty; at least, it was not a volume of poetry as such. It was something more unusual. If we measure the preciousness of products by their reality, then prayers are the most precious of all products. So rare and unique is the Book of Psalms.

II. Note some of the general uses of the Psalter.(1) The Psalms bring out with unapproachable practical influence the idea of a living, personal God, the Creator, and Judge, and Friend of men; His moral character; the whole body of truths rightly or wrongly termed natural religion. (2) The Psalms bring out as nothing else can the ideal of spiritual religion. (a) They show us that religions exceeding great reward is in itself. (b) They tell us that mans spiritual ideal is not in its essence formal or ceremonial. (c) They show, as a feature of the spiritual character unknown to all other religions, a deep, abiding sense of sinfulness; a holiness arising not from effort, but from conscience feeling a burden and faith laying it upon a Saviour.

III. The Psalms are a proof of the existence of the Divine world, just as music is the proof of the existence of a world of harmony.We possess aspirations beyond our present needs. They will never read man truly who forget that he bears within a spiritual prophecy, as truly as he bears without a natural history. Of this prophecy the Psalms are the accumulated utterances. They tell us that even if the tree of humanity, embedded in the soil of myriad ages, has roots that go down lower than the cabin of the savage, to the lair of the brute, yet aloft it has tendrils that stretch themselves upwards towards the light of immortality. I am continually with Thee; Thou hast holden me by Thy right hand. This God is our God for ever and ever; He shall be our Guide unto death.

Archbishop Alexander.

Illustrations

(1) Christian, fix your eye upon Christ and you will soon praise Him. Dwell upon that Lamb of God till you forget yourself and become lost in the marvellous love to you, a guilty sinner. Read the meaning of those drops of blood, of that anguished look and that bitter cry. It was all for thee. It was because He was suffering for thy sin, and that thou mightest go up to the throne of God a blood-bought, pardoned sinner! Dwell on this love till self is forgotten and praises fill thy soul.

(2) A Psalm like the 146th hardly needs the Gloria at the close to bring it fully into unison with our Christian worship. It contains a threefold three in one. It has a heart of adoration which beats in threes. Of the strange threefold vibration in the blessings and descriptions of the Old Testament the Psalter abundantly partakes.

Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary