Psalm 147

The Church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and favours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the foregoing.

1. 1

   Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.

2. 13

   Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

3. 14

   Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

4. 15

   Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

5. 16

   Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

6. 17

   He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?

7. 18

   He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.

8. 19

   Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.

9. 20

   He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.