Here’s a
paraphrase of Psalm 146:5-10 from James Taylor’s wonderful collection, Everyday Psalms. (See below for link.)
Psalm Paraphrase: Psalm 146:5-10
Put your
faith in God.
God made heaven and earth,
the sea, the sky, and the
continents.
God made
everything that lives in the waters,
that walks
on the earth, that flies in the skies.
God keeps faith with them all.
Surely God
will do the same for you.
God’s spirit proclaims good news to
the poor,
release to the captives,
recovery of sight to the blind.
God’s holy
spirit lifts up those
who are
bent over with responsibilities,
who are
burdened with the struggle to do right.
God does not protect only good solid
citizens.
God looks
after transients, immigrants, and gays,
illegitimate
children, and single mothers.
God will not break faith.
Not now. Not ever.
Thank God
for that!
~ written
by James Taylor, in Everyday Psalms (Woodlake
Books, 1994).
