¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
    Praise your God, O Zion!
¹³ For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
    he blesses your sons within you.
¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders;
    he fills you with the finest of the wheat.
¹⁵ He sends forth his command to the earth;
    his word runs swiftly.
¹⁶ He gives snow like wool;
    he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
¹⁷ He casts forth his ice like morsels;
    who can stand before his cold?
¹⁸ He sends forth his word, and melts them;
    he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.
¹⁹ He declares his word to Jacob,
    his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
²⁰ He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
    they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
    seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
¹⁶ The Lord is king for ever and ever;
    the nations shall perish from his land.

¹⁷ O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek;
    thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear
¹⁸ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
    so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.