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Salmo 146:2
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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.