Psalms 145 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Time Period
Attributed to David, around 1010 to 970 BC, and shaped into its final form for temple worship after the exile
Location
Jerusalem, addressed outward to every generation and to all creatures everywhere
Audience
Israelite worshipers, with the horizon widened to include all people and all created things
Situation
An alphabet poem of praise that moves from God's greatness and mighty acts to his patience, generosity and care for everyone who falls or is bent down, promising that one generation will hand this report to the next.
Key Background
Each line begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet, a form that signals completeness, as if praise runs from A to Z, and it also helped worshipers memorize the text. The standard Hebrew manuscripts skip the letter nun, but a copy found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ancient Greek translation both preserve that missing line, one of the clearest cases where older manuscripts fill a gap. This is the only psalm whose heading calls it a tehillah, or praise, and the plural of that word gives the Hebrew Bible its name for the entire book, while Jewish daily prayer builds its Ashrei prayer around this text.
I will you my God, my — I will your name forever and always.
Every single day I will you — I will your name forever and always.
Yahweh is — worthy of all praise, his greatness is could
One generation will to the next, telling the stories of what you have
I will speak of the of your splendor, and dwell on the stories of your
They will talk about the of your acts, and I — I will how you are.
They will out the of your overwhelming goodness and shout for joy over how and you are.
Yahweh with and undeserved kindness, slow to and rich in
Yahweh is to everyone, and his reaches over everything he has made.
you have will give thanks to you, Yahweh, and those who are to you will you.
They will speak of the of your reign and talk about your
making your known to all people — the of your reign.
Your stretches across every era, your endures through every generation.
Yahweh up who is falling and up who is
Every eye to you with hope, and you give them their food when they it.
You hand and every living thing with what it
Yahweh is in all his ways and in everything he does.
Yahweh is to everyone who out to him — to everyone who out to him with an
He the of everyone who in of him; he hears their cry and them.
Yahweh everyone who him, but all who are — he will them out.
My mouth will speak the of Yahweh. Let every his the no other, forever and always.