¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
¹³ For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your children within you.
^14 (A)He makes peace in your borders,
And ^(B)fills you with ^[a]the finest wheat.

^15 (C)He sends out His command to the earth;
His word runs very swiftly.
^16 (D)He gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes;
¹⁷ He casts out His hail like ^[b]morsels;
Who can stand before His cold?
^18 (E)He sends out His word and melts them;
He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow.

^19 (F)He declares His word to Jacob,
^(G)His statutes and His judgments to Israel.
^20 (H)He has not dealt thus with any nation;
And as for His judgments, they have not known them.

^[c]Praise the Lord!

² To know wisdom and instruction,
To ^[a]perceive the words of understanding,
³ To receive the instruction of wisdom,
Justice, judgment, and equity;
⁴ To give prudence to the ^(B)simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion—
^5 (C)A wise man will hear and increase learning,
And a man of understanding will ^[b]attain wise counsel,
⁶ To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their ^(D)riddles.

^7 (E)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.