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Psalms 147

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. ✦ 2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. ✦ 3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. ✦ 4He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. ✦ 5Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. ✦ 6The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. ✦ 7Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: ✦ 8Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. ✦ 9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. ✦ 10He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. ✦ 11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. ✦ 12Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. ✦ 13For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. ✦ 14He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. ✦ 15He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. ✦ 16He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. ✦ 17He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? ✦ 18He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. ✦ 19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. ✦ 20He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD. ✦

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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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