Psalm 147:12-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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!