Psalm 147

³Hallelujah, for the Lord is good; sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.

¹A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

¹Rejoice in the Lord, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.

⁴These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

³Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

⁴So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

¹⁰You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

⁸Thus declares the Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

³then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the Lord your God has scattered you.

¹⁸In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

²⁰to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

²¹that they may proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,

⁷nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

¹²remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

¹⁸The Lord is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

¹⁸For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

⁶Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

¹The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

¹Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

²After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

³Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.

³When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

⁵And the Lord took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

²⁸Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

¹⁷How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

¹⁸If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

⁴For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

³³O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³The Lord is slow to anger and great in power; the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

⁹He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.

⁶Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.

⁸the Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord lifts those who are weighed down, the Lord loves the righteous.

⁹The Lord protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

³Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

⁴For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

¹Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!

²Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.

⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!

⁷For God is King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise.

³²Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord—Selah

²¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

¹A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

²to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

⁸When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

¹⁰He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

⁹You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.

¹⁰You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

¹⁴Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

⁸He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

⁹He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

¹⁷Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

⁴⁵that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

²⁷All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

²⁸When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

⁴¹Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

²⁶Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

²⁵He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.

²⁴Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

¹⁵The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

¹⁶You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁷But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the Lord does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the Lord sees the heart.”

¹Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the Lord.

⁷Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

¹⁶No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

¹⁷A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

³¹A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the Lord.

¹¹I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.

¹⁸Surely the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

¹⁶At that time those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the Lord and honored His name.

¹⁷“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

¹⁷The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

⁴For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

⁴No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

²⁷May those who favor my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “Exalted be the Lord who delights in His servant’s well-being.”

²³Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

⁷How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

¹⁰The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!

¹⁹O house of Israel, bless the Lord; O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;

²⁰O house of Levi, bless the Lord; you who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!

²Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

³Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

⁴In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the Lord.

³For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

⁴They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

¹⁴May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children.

¹⁵May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

¹⁹Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.

²⁰Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.

¹²Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

²As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

¹¹The Lord gives His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.

¹⁷Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

¹⁸No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

¹⁶But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

¹⁵I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁴with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

⁷For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

⁸a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

¹²They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

²⁰He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.

¹Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread quickly and be held in honor, just as it was with you.

⁸The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

⁹For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

¹³Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.

⁹For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

⁶For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

²⁹From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

⁸lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

¹⁰For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

⁹The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

¹⁰By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

²⁹From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

³⁰when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

²²Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

²³which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁹The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

¹⁰By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

²³So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the Lord rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

²⁴The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

¹¹As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the Lord cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

¹⁵He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.

⁹For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

¹⁰By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

¹⁶darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

¹⁷but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

²⁰He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.

¹⁷You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

⁴“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

⁵For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

²He said: “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

³Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

⁴the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

²²The Lord spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

⁴⁵These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

³²Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

³³Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

⁷For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

⁸And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

¹What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

²Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

¹²remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,