Psalm 146

Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and Zacharias.

¹ My soul, praise the Lord. ² While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. ³ Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. ⁴ His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

⁵ Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever: ⁷ who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones: ⁸ the Lord gives wisdom to the blind:

The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers; ⁹ he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners. ¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Sion, to all generations.

Psalm 147

Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and Zacharias.

¹ Praise ye the Lord: for psalmody is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God. ² The Lord builds up Jerusalem; and he will gather together the dispersed of Israel. ³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He numbers the multitudes of stars; and calls them all by names. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his strength; and his understanding is infinite. ⁶ The Lord lifts up the meek; but brings sinners down to the ground.

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⁷ Begin the song with thanksgiving to the Lord; sing praises on the harp to our God: ⁸ who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, [¹and green herb for the service of men;] ⁹ and gives cattle their food, and to the young ravens that call upon him. ¹⁰ He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is he well-pleased with the legs of a man. ¹¹ The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, and in all that hope in his mercy.

Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and Zacharias.

¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Sion. ¹³ For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee. ¹⁴ He makes thy borders peaceful, and fills thee with the ²flour of wheat. ¹⁵ He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes. ¹⁷ Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold? ¹⁸ He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow. ¹⁹ He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has not done so to ³any other nation; and he has not shewn them his judgments.