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Psalms 147

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is beautiful. ✦ 2The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel. ✦ 3He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. ✦ 4He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. ✦ 5Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite. ✦ 6The Lord supports the afflicted; He brings the wicked down to the ground. ✦ 7¶Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; Sing praises to our God on the lyre; ✦ 8It is He who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass sprout on the mountains. ✦ 9It is He who gives an animal its food, And feeds young ravens that cry. ✦ 10He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man. ✦ 11The Lord favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His faithfulness. ✦ 12¶Praise the Lord, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! ✦ 13For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons among you. ✦ 14He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat. ✦ 15He sends His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly. ✦ 16He showers snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. ✦ 17He hurls His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold? ✦ 18He sends His word and makes them melt; He makes His wind blow, and the waters flow. ✦ 19He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ✦ 20He has not dealt this way with any other nation; And as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise 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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