Psalm 147:12-20

Common English Bible

¹² Worship the Lord, Jerusalem!
    Praise your God, Zion!
¹³ Because God secures the bars on your gates,
    God blesses the children you have there.
¹⁴ God establishes your borders peacefully.
    God fills you full with the very best wheat.

¹⁵ God issues his command to the earth—
    God’s word speeds off fast!
¹⁶ God spreads snow like it was wool;
    God scatters frost like it was ashes;
¹⁷ God throws his hail down like crumbs—
    who can endure God’s freezing cold?
¹⁸ Then God issues his word and melts it all away!
    God makes his winds blow;
    the water flows again.

¹⁹ God proclaims his word to Jacob;
    his statutes and rules to Israel.
²⁰ God hasn’t done that with any other nation;
    those nations have no knowledge of God’s rules.^[a]

Praise the Lord!