‏ Psalms 147

Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias.
147:0 In the original text, the following verses are numbered 12 to 20.

1Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Sion.
2For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
3He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the
147:3 Lit. fat of wheat.
flour of wheat.
4He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly.
5He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes.
6Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold?
7He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow.
8He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel.
9He has not done so to
147:9 Gr. every.
any other nation; and he has not shown them his judgments.
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