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Psalm 147 Catholic Public Domain Version

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Notes on this text (4)
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1 Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion.
12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!
2 For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you.
13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
3 He has stationed peace at your borders, and he has satisfied you with the fat of the grain.
14 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
4 He sends forth his eloquence to the earth. His word runs swiftly.
15 He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
5 He provides snow like wool. He strews clouds like ashes.
16 He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
6 He sends his ice crystals like morsels. Who can stand firm before the face of his cold?
17 He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
7 He will send forth his word, and it will melt them. His Spirit will breathe out, and the waters will flow.
18 He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
8 He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.
19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
9 He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them. Alleluia.
20 He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Cross references (9)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Joel 2:23; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 52:7; Psalm 146:10; Psalm 135:19–21
  2. 2 Psalm 128:3–6; Isaiah 44:3–5; Psalm 115:14–15; Jeremiah 30:19–20; Psalm 144:12
  3. 3 Psalm 29:11; Isaiah 60:17–18; Psalm 81:16; Psalm 132:15; Deuteronomy 32:14
  4. 4 Job 37:12; Psalm 107:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Matthew 8:8–9; Matthew 8:13
  5. 5 Job 37:6; Job 38:29; Psalm 148:8; Isaiah 55:10; Job 37:9–10
  6. 6 Job 38:29–30; Job 38:22–23; Psalm 78:47–48; Job 37:9–10; Exodus 9:23–25
  7. 7 Psalm 147:15; Psalm 33:9; Job 37:10; Job 6:16–17; Psalm 107:20
  8. 8 Malachi 4:4; Psalm 78:5; Deuteronomy 33:2–4; Romans 9:4; Deuteronomy 5:22
  9. 9 Deuteronomy 4:32–34; Deuteronomy 4:7–8; Romans 3:1–2; Ephesians 2:12; 1 Peter 2:9–10

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXLVI)

    Behold the Psalm soundeth; it is the voice of some one (and that some one are ye, if ye will), of some one encouraging his soul to praise God, and saying to himself, "Praise the Lord, O my soul" (ver. 1).

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 147:5 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XII, Chapters 16–18)

    … bringeth out their host by number." And the Saviour says in the Gospel, "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." Far be it, then, from us to doubt that all number is known to Him "whose understanding," according to the Psalmist, "is infinite." The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 147:9 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXI)

    … lesson David also lays the foundation from old time, saying enigmatically on this wise, "Thou openest Thine hand, and fillest every living thing with bounty;" and again, "To Him that giveth to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that call upon Him." "Who then," it may be said, "have not taken thought"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 147:4 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture VI)

    Thou beholdest the stars, but their Maker thou beholdest not: count these which are visible, and then describe Him who is invisible, Who telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  5. Quotes verse 147:4 Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Orations (The Second Theological Oration)

    Know you the bond of Pleiades, or the fence of Orion as He who counteth the number of the stars and calleth them all by their names? Know you the differences of the glory of each, and the order of their movement, that I should trust you, when by them you weave the web of human concerns, and arm the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)