Psalms, 147
The church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and favours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the foregoing.
Lauda, Jerusalem.
[12] Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion. •
[13] Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.
[14] Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn. •
[15] Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.
[16] Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. •
[17] He sendeth his crystal 1 like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold? •
He sendeth his crystal: That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail, which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.
[18] He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run. •
[19] Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.
[20] He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia. •