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Psalms 147

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him! ✦ 2The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel. ✦ 3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. ✦ 4He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name. ✦ 5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit. ✦ 6The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground. ✦ 7Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God, ✦ 8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills. ✦ 9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call. ✦ 10He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man. ✦ 11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion. ✦ 12Exalt the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion! ✦ 13For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you. ✦ 14He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat. ✦ 15He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly. ✦ 16He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; ✦ 17He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast? ✦ 18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow. ✦ 19He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel. ✦ 20He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah! ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Deut 4 ·6Job 37 ·6Ps 33 ·6Job 38 ·5Ps 135 ·4Ps 107 ·4Ps 51 ·3Ps 145 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 147 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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