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Chapter 295 of 362

Psalm 147

1 min read · Chapter 295 of 362

“Praise ye Jah, for [it is] good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; comely [is] praise. Jehovah buildeth Jerusalem; Israel's outcasts he gathereth; the healer of the broken. hearted, and binding up their wounds. Counting the number of the stars, to them all he giveth (calleth) names. Great [is] our Lord, and of much power; his understanding is infinite. Jehovah lifteth up the humble; he casteth down the wicked to the earth. Respond to Jehovah with thanksgiving, sing psalms unto our God with harp. He covereth the heaven with clouds, he provideth for the earth of rain, he causeth mountains to bring forth grass, giving to cattle their food, to young (sons of) ravens which cry. Not in strength of the horse doth he delight, not in legs of (the) man taketh he pleasure. Jehovah taketh pleasure in those fearing him, in those hoping in his mercy. Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy sons in, thy midst. He maketh thy border peace, with the fat of wheat satisfieth thee. He sendeth his saying earth [ward]; with speed runneth his word. He giveth snow like the wool, scattereth hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth his ice like morsels: before his cold who can stand? He sendeth his word and melteth [them], he causeth his wind to blow—the waters flow. He showeth his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgments to Israel. He dealt not thus with any living nation; and judgments, they know them not. Praise ye Jah” (vers. 1-20).
Incomparably greater things are before Israel than the work of Nehemiah for the returned remnant, though to speak of this may have given occasion to their glorious hope, inseparable from the Messiah and the kingdom and all Israel then to be saved. Then indeed it will be Jehovah building Jerusalem and gathering Israel's outcasts far beyond the little provisional mercy to the Jews from Babylon. And He is competent Who makes the world, yea the universe, delights most of all in the lowly that fear Him, and shows Jacob His word, Israel His judgments; He thus owned no other nation.

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