There are four blessings that are shared by both Psalm 146 and the Messianic Apocalypse (even though they appear in a slightly different order): God feeds the hungry, God sets the prisoner free, God gives sight to the blind, and God straightens out the twisted. The psalmist’s assertion that God “loves the righteous” (Psalm 146:8) is reminiscent of the assurance in the Messianic Apocalypse of the Lord’s preferential treatment of the righteous, whom God will call by name.
