시편 147

The LORD who counts stars and heals

¹Praise the LORD! It is good to make music for our God; it is a delight, and praise is fitting. ²The LORD is rebuilding Jerusalem; he is bringing together Israel’s scattered exiles. ³He heals those whose hearts are crushed and bandages their injuries. ⁴He decides how many stars there are and gives each one its name. ⁵Our Lord is great and mighty in power; there is no measuring his understanding. ⁶The LORD lifts up the lowly and throws the wicked down to the earth. ⁷Sing out to the LORD with thanks; make music for our God on the lyre, ⁸who wraps the sky in clouds, who gets rain ready for the land, who makes grass sprout on the mountains, ⁹who gives the beasts their food and feeds the raven’s chicks when they call. ¹⁰It is not the power of the horse that delights him, nor a soldier’s strong legs that please him. ¹¹What pleases the LORD is people who revere him and look with hope to his loyal love. ¹²Jerusalem, glorify the LORD! Zion, praise your God! ¹³For he has made the bars of your gates strong and has blessed your children inside your walls. ¹⁴He keeps your frontiers at peace and satisfies you with the richest wheat. ¹⁵He issues his orders to the earth, and his word goes out at a run. ¹⁶He sends snow that lies like wool and strews frost like ash. ¹⁷He flings down his ice in pieces like crumbs; who can hold out against his cold? ¹⁸He sends his word, and the ice thaws; he sets his wind blowing, and the waters run. ¹⁹He makes his words known to Jacob, his statutes and his rulings to Israel. ²⁰No other nation has he treated this way; his rulings are unknown to them. Praise the LORD!