hear of success that goes hand in hand with betrayal of fundamentals, let us take a glance

at Psa. 144:, and be enabled to say to all such: "Nay, blessed is that people, whose God

is the Lord."

The next and closing beatitude of the Psalms is found in a context that magnifies the

Lord in a very full manner. There are but ten verses in the Psalm, and in order to

demonstrate the emphatic place occupied in it by the Lord, we will give the entire Psalm,

set out according to its structure and emphasis.

A | 1, 2. Hallelujah.

Praise the LORD, O my soul.

While I live will I praise the LORD:

I will sing praises unto GOD while I have any being.

B | 3. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man.

C | 3. In whom there is no help.

D | 4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth;

In that very day his thoughts perish.

E | 5. BLESSED IS HE THAT HATH THE GOD OF

JACOB FOR HIS HELP.

B | 5. Whose hope is in the LORD his GOD.

C | 6-9. WHICH made heaven and earth,

The sea, and all that therein is:

WHICH keepeth truth for ever:

WHICH executeth judgment for the oppressed.

WHICH giveth food to the hungry.

The LORD looseth the prisoners:

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind:

The LORD raiseth them that are bowed down:

The LORD loveth the righteous:

The LORD preserveth the strangers:

HE relieveth the fatherless and widow:

But the way of the wicked HE turneth upside down.

D | 4. The LORD shall reign for ever,

even Thy GOD, O Zion, unto all generations.

A | 10. Hallelujah.

Praise ye the LORD.

In this first of the five "Hallelujah" Psalms that conclude the whole book, we have the

Lord Himself as the centre and foundation, the source and the goal of all blessing. Man

is set aside, be he prince of the blood, or man of the street. In him there is no help. The

reference to his breath: "his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth" and his

mortality call to mind a parallel utterance:--