Psalms 147
1 Praise ye Yah, For it is good, to make melody to our GOD, —For it is delightful, seemly is praise!
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 Yahweh, is building Jerusalem, The outcasts of Israel, will he gather together.
[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 is healing the broken in heart, —and binding up their hurts.
He enables those who were very discouraged to be encouraged again; [it is as though] they have wounds and he bandages them.
4 Counting the number of the stars, To all of them—names, he giveth.
He has determined how many stars there will be, and he gives names to all of them.
5 Great is our Lord, and of abounding strength, And, his knowledge, cannot be expressed.
Yahweh is great and very powerful, and no one can measure how much he understands.
6 Yahweh, relieveth the humbled! casting the lawless down to the earth.
Yahweh lifts up those who have been oppressed, and he throws the wicked down to the ground.
7 Respond to Yahweh with thanksgiving, Make melody to our God with the lyre.
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, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:
He covers the sky with clouds, [and then] he sends rain to the earth and causes grass to grow on the hills.
9 Giving, to the beast, its food, to the young ravens, when they 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 Not in the strength of the horse, doth he delight, Not in the legs of a man, hath he pleasure:
He is not pleased with strong horses or with men who can run [MTY] fast.
11 Yahweh, hath pleasure, in them who revere him, in them who wait for his lovingkindness.
Instead, what pleases him are those who revere him, those who confidently expect him to continue to faithfully love them.
12 Laud thou, O Jerusalem, Yahweh, 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 in thy midst:
He [guards your city] by keeping its gates strong. He blesses the people who live there.
14 Who maketh thy boundaries to be peace, With the marrow of wheat, doth he satisfy thee:
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 Who sendeth his utterance to the earth, How swiftly, runneth his word!
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 Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar-frost—like ashes, he scattereth:
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 Casting forth his ice like crumbs, Before his cold, who can stand?
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 forth his word and melteth them, He causeth his wind to blow, the waters, stream along:
[But] he commands the wind to blow, and it blows. [Then the hail] melts and [the water] flows [into the streams].
19 Declaring his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his regulations, 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 so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah!
He has not done that for any other nation; the other nations do not know his laws. Praise Yahweh!
