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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 together the outcasts of Israel. ✦ 3He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. ✦ 4He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. ✦ 5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. ✦ 6The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground. ✦ 7Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; Sing praises on the harp to our God, ✦ 8Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains. ✦ 9He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that cry. ✦ 10He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. ✦ 11The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His mercy. ✦ 12Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! ✦ 13For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you. ✦ 14He makes peace in your borders, And fills you with the finest wheat. ✦ 15He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly. ✦ 16He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; ✦ 17He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold? ✦ 18He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. ✦ 19He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ✦ 20He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise the Lord! ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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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