Psalms 147
1 Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for it is pleasant: praise is comely.
Praise Yahweh! It is good to sing to praise our God. It is a delightful thing to do and the right thing to do.
2 Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel.
[Jerusalem was destroyed, but] Yahweh is [enabling us to] build Jerusalem again. He is bringing back the people who were taken [to Babylonia].
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
He enables those who were very discouraged to be encouraged again; [it is as though] they have wounds and he bandages them.
4 He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth names to them all.
He has determined how many stars there will be, and he gives names to all of them.
5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Yahweh is great and very powerful, and no one can measure how much he understands.
6 Jehovah lifteth up the meek; he abaseth the wicked to the earth.
Yahweh lifts up those who have been oppressed, and he throws the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing psalms upon the harp unto our God:
Thank Yahweh while you are singing to him to praise him; on the harps, play music to our God.
8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;
He covers the sky with clouds, [and then] he sends rain to the earth and causes grass to grow on the hills.
9 Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry.
He gives to animals the food that they [need], and gives food to young crows/birds when they cry out [because they are hungry].
10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse, he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man;
He is not pleased with strong horses or with men who can run [MTY] fast.
11 Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his loving-kindness.
Instead, what pleases him are those who revere him, those who confidently expect him to continue to faithfully love them.
12 Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
[You people of] [APO] Jerusalem, praise Yahweh! Praise your God!
13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;
He [guards your city] by keeping its gates strong. He blesses the people who live there.
14 He maketh peace in thy borders; he satisfieth thee with the finest of the wheat.
He protects the borders [of your country, so that enemies from other countries cannot attack you]. He gives you plenty of very good wheat/grain to eat.
15 He sendeth forth his oracles to the earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
He commands what he wants to be done on the earth, and his words quickly come to the place to which he sends them.
16 He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;
He sends snow which [covers the ground] like a white wool blanket [SIM], and he scatters frost [on the ground] like [wind scatters] ashes [SIM].
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
He sends hail down like (pebbles/tiny stones); [when that happens], (it is very difficult to endure because the air becomes very cold./who can endure because the air becomes very cold?) [RHQ]
18 He sendeth his word, and melteth them; he causeth his wind to blow — the waters flow.
[But] he commands the wind to blow, and it blows. [Then the hail] melts and [the water] flows [into the streams].
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
He sent his message to [the descendants of] Jacob; [he tells to his] Israeli people the laws and regulations that he had decreed.
20 He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for [his] judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!
He has not done that for any other nation; the other nations do not know his laws. Praise Yahweh!
