The Book of PsalmsPsalm 147
Lauda, Jerusalem. 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. Alleluia.
The Douay-Rheims numbers the Psalms as the Latin Vulgate does. In Bibles translated from the Hebrew this is Psalm 147. Read Psalm 147 in the WEBC.
147Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
13Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.
14Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.
15Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.
16Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.
17He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?
18He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.
19Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.
20He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.
Notes by Bishop Challoner
- 17 He sendeth his crystal. That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail, which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.