Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 145:13

"Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And thy dominion [endureth] throughout all generations." — Psalms 145:13 (ASV)

See the margin, and compare Daniel 4:3; Daniel 4:34. However, it is not necessary to perceive any dependence between the passages because of the recurrence of phrases that must have been in daily use within the theocracy.

The nun stanza, which should follow Psalms 145:13, has most likely been omitted. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions include a variation of Psalms 145:17 here, which, in Hebrew, would provide a verse beginning with the required letter. However, this variation is unknown to the other ancient versions, is rejected by Jewish writers, and, although found in one Hebrew manuscript, it appears suspicious there.

Yet, these arguments can hardly outweigh the improbability that, in an artificial composition, one letter (and an easy one for this purpose) would have been either intentionally or accidentally omitted from the original draft. This is particularly true when we consider how extremely unlikely it is that the Septuagint translators would have troubled themselves to supply a verse merely to maintain an arrangement of which they took no other notice, perhaps even hardly observed.