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Psalm 146

1 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. 3 Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver. 4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground. On that day their plans die. 5 How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God. 6 The one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,⁠ who remains forever faithful, 7 vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry.⁠ The Lord releases the imprisoned. 8 The Lord gives sight to the blind.⁠ The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly.⁠ 9 The Lord protects the resident foreigner. He lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.⁠ 10 The Lord rules forever, your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come. Praise the Lord!

Texts in conversation

Compare Psalm 146:6 and 1 Enoch 101:8

Hebrew Bible · Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses

Summary

1 Enoch 101 quotes Psalm 146 about the creator of heaven, earth, and all that is in them. By incorporating this language, 1 Enoch positions itself in continuity with traditions that affirm divine authority through creation.

Passages

Psalm 146:6

Hebrew Bible

5 How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God. 6 The one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains forever faithful, 7 vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned. 8 The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly.

600–201 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Psalms

1 Enoch 101:8

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses

7 And at His reproof, it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and everything in it; yet you sinners on the earth do not fear Him. 8 Has He not made the heavens and the earth, and all that is within them? Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea? 9 Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners do not fear the Most High.

300 BCE – 100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Enoch

References

"... Having portrayed the sea as God’s creation (verse 6), the writer now more broadly includes “heaven and earth and everything that is in them” (the italicized text being all that remains from the Greek). Except for the lack of a reference to “the sea”, the text draws on the language of Psalm 146:6 (“who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them”), in which the declaration of God as Creator of all is linked to God’s activity on behalf of those who inter alia are the righteous oppressed (verses 7–9; see also 4Q521 7+5 ii 2 and especially an allusion in 2 ii 1–2 and 5, 8) ..."

Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91–108 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2007), 481.

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Compare Psalm 146:6 and 1 Enoch 101:8

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Psalm 146:6

1 Enoch 101:8

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