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Psalms 147

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. ✦ 2Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ✦ 3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. ✦ 4He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. ✦ 5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite. ✦ 6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground. ✦ 7Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God, ✦ 8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. ✦ 9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call. ✦ 10He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. ✦ 11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness. ✦ 12Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! ✦ 13For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you. ✦ 14He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat. ✦ 15He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly. ✦ 16He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. ✦ 17He hurls down his hail like pebbles. 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 shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. ✦ 20He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah! ✦

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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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