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Psalms 146:2

I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Praise;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Haggai;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Haggai;   Hallelujah;   Vulgate;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will praise the Lord all my life;I will sing to my God as long as I live.
Hebrew Names Version
While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
King James Version
While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
English Standard Version
I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
New Century Version
I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.
New English Translation
I will praise the Lord as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!
Amplified Bible
While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.
New American Standard Bible
I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
World English Bible
While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I will prayse the Lorde during my life: as long as I haue any being, I wil sing vnto my God.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will praise Yahweh throughout my life;I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Berean Standard Bible
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Contemporary English Version
I will sing and praise the Lord God for as long as I live.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will praise Adonai as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God all my life.
Darby Translation
As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will praise the Lord all my life. I will sing praises to him as long as I live.
George Lamsa Translation
While I live will I praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.
Good News Translation
I will praise him as long as I live; I will sing to my God all my life.
Lexham English Bible
I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I am still alive.
Literal Translation
While I live I will praise Jehovah; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O put not yor trust in prynces, ner in the childe of man, for there is no helpe in the.
American Standard Version
While I live will I praise Jehovah: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Bible in Basic English
While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being.
King James Version (1611)
While I liue, will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises vnto my God, while I haue any being.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Put not your trust in princes [nor] in the sonne of man: in whom there is no saluation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
English Revised Version
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi soule, herie thou the Lord; Y schal herie the Lord in my lijf, Y schal synge to my God as longe as Y schal be. Nile ye triste in princis;
Update Bible Version
While I live I will praise Yahweh: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.
Webster's Bible Translation
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.
New King James Version
While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
New Life Bible
I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.
New Revised Standard
I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will praise Yahweh while I live! I will make melody to my God while I continue!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(145-2) in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:
Revised Standard Version
I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
Young's Literal Translation
I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I will praise the Lord while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

Contextual Overview

1 Praise the Lord ! Let all that I am praise the Lord . 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath. 3 Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. 4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:1 - all the days 2 Samuel 22:50 - I will sing 1 Chronicles 29:10 - David blessed 1 Chronicles 29:20 - Now bless Nehemiah 9:5 - bless Psalms 9:1 - praise Psalms 30:12 - I will Psalms 52:9 - praise Psalms 61:8 - sing Psalms 71:8 - General Psalms 86:12 - praise Psalms 103:1 - Bless Psalms 108:1 - I will Psalms 118:28 - my God Isaiah 25:1 - thou art Isaiah 38:19 - the living Daniel 6:20 - servest Zechariah 8:21 - I will John 16:22 - and your Philippians 4:4 - alway

Gill's 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

Psalms 104:33.

l בעודי "dum fuero", Pagninus; "in adhuc me", Montanus; "quamdiu ero", Cocceius; εως υπαρχω, Sept. "quamdiu sum", Schmidt, Ethiopic version; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

While I live will I praise the Lord ... - See the notes at Psalms 104:33, where the same language occurs substantially as in this verse: “I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” The idea is, not merely that he would praise him during this life - short and fleeting as it is - but that as long as he had an existence - in the future world - forever he would praise him.

Through every period of my life

Thy goodness I’ll pursue;

And after death, in distant worlds,

The glorious theme renew.

Through all eternity to Thee

A joyful song I’ll raise;

But, oh! eternity’s too short

To utter all thy praise.”

- Addison



Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 146:2. 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. — בעודי beodi, in my continuance, in my progression, my eternal existence. This is very expressive.


 
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