Psalms 147
1 Alleluia. Praise the Lord, because the psalm is good. Delightful and beautiful praise shall be for our God.
Praise ye Yah, For it is good, to make melody to our GOD, —For it is delightful, seemly is praise!
2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He will gather together the dispersed of Israel.
Yahweh, is building Jerusalem, The outcasts of Israel, will he gather together.
3 He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.
He is healing the broken in heart, —and binding up their hurts.
4 He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names.
Counting the number of the stars, To all of them—names, he giveth.
5 Great is our Lord, and great is his virtue. And of his wisdom, there is no number.
Great is our Lord, and of abounding strength, And, his knowledge, cannot be expressed.
6 The Lord lifts up the meek, but he brings down the sinner, even to the ground.
Yahweh, relieveth the humbled! casting the lawless down to the earth.
7 Sing before the Lord with confession. Play psalms to our God on a stringed instrument.
Respond to Yahweh with thanksgiving, Make melody to our God with the lyre.
8 He covers heaven with clouds, and he prepares rain for the earth. He produces grass on the mountains and herbs for the service of men.
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:
9 He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.
Giving, to the beast, its food, to the young ravens, when they cry.
10 He will not have good will for the strength of the horse, nor will he be well pleased with the legs of a man.
Not in the strength of the horse, doth he delight, Not in the legs of a man, hath he pleasure:
11 The Lord is well pleased with those who fear him and with those who hope in his mercy.
Yahweh, hath pleasure, in them who revere him, in them who wait for his lovingkindness.
12 Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion.
Laud thou, O Jerusalem, Yahweh, Praise thy God, O Zion:
13 For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you.
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy children in thy midst:
14 He has stationed peace at your borders, and he has satisfied you with the fat of the grain.
Who maketh thy boundaries to be peace, With the marrow of wheat, doth he satisfy thee:
15 He sends forth his eloquence to the earth. His word runs swiftly.
Who sendeth his utterance to the earth, How swiftly, runneth his word!
16 He provides snow like wool. He strews clouds like ashes.
Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar-frost—like ashes, he scattereth:
17 He sends his ice crystals like morsels. Who can stand firm before the face of his cold?
Casting forth his ice like crumbs, Before his cold, who can stand?
18 He will send forth his word, and it will melt them. His Spirit will breathe out, and the waters will flow.
He sendeth forth his word and melteth them, He causeth his wind to blow, the waters, stream along:
19 He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.
Declaring his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his regulations, unto Israel.
20 He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them. Alleluia.
He hath not dealt so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah!
