It is clear that this liturgical hymn is made up of what were once independent literary units. This is sufficiently obvious from the fact that in verse 6 the worshipping company are seeking the deity’s presence, as indeed is presupposed by verses 3-5, while in verses 7-10 the company is seeking entrance for Yahwe himself into the temple or more probably into the city. The whole constitutes a noble liturgical hymn of praise.
Psalms 111 and 145 have little claim to recognition other than that they are alphabetical psalms, the twenty-two lines of 111 beginning with the twenty-two successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, while the first lines of the twenty-two couplets of Psalm 145 likewise begin with the twenty-two successive letters of the alphabet.
Psalm 146 opens in the characteristic style of an individual hymn of praise:
Praise ye Yahwe:
Praise Yahwe, O my soul;
While I live I will praise Yahwe;
I will sing praises unto my God, while I exist.
Then, however, there are three verses in the manner of wisdom literature, although introduced by verse 3 in the hortatory style of the prophet:
Trust ye not in princes,
Nor in man in whom is no help: