Psalms 147

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Al eluia! Praise Yahweh -- it is good to sing psalms to our God -- how pleasant to praise him.	1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.
2 Yahweh, Builder of Jerusalem! He gathers together the exiles of Israel,	2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:
3 healing the broken-hearted and binding up their wounds;	3 in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.
4 he counts out the number of the stars, and gives each one of them a name.	4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.
5 Our Lord is great, al -powerful, his wisdom beyond al telling.	5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6 Yahweh sustains the poor, and humbles the wicked to the ground.	6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.
7 Sing to Yahweh in thanksgiving, play the harp for our God.	7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:
8 He veils the sky with clouds, and provides the earth with rain, makes grass grow on the hills andplants for people to use,	8 the Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.
9 gives fodder to cattle and to young ravens when they cry.	9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
10 He takes no delight in the power of horses, no pleasure in human sturdiness;	10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.
11 his pleasure is in those who fear him, in those who hope in his faithful love.
12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God.
13 For he gives strength to the bars of your gates, he blesses your children within you,
14 he maintains the peace of your frontiers, gives you your fil of finest wheat.
15 He sends his word to the earth, his command runs quickly,
16 he spreads the snow like flax, strews hoarfrost like ashes,
17 he sends ice-crystals like breadcrumbs, and who can withstand that cold?
18 When he sends his word it thaws them, when he makes his wind blow, the waters are unstopped.
19 He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgements to Israel.
20 For no other nation has he done this, no other has known his judgements.