Psalm 147

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion:

for He has strengthened the bars of your gates.

He has blessed your children within you.

He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the fatness of wheat.

He sends His word to the earth: His word runs swiftly.

He gives snow like wool: He scatters the mist like ashes. He casts out His ice like morsels:

who will be able to stand before His frost?

He will send out His word, and melt them.

His wind will blow, and the waters shall flow.

He declares His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgements to Israel.

He has not done so with every nation;

and He has not revealed to them His judgements.

ALLELUIA.