Psalm 147 – Praise the LORD for His Power and Provision

God who names every star also heals broken hearts and feeds the ravens.

Psalm 147: He Healeth the Brokenhearted

Psalm 147 praises the LORD for rebuilding Jerusalem and gathering Israel's outcasts, continuing the praise begun in Psalms 146. Psalms 147:3 declares that he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.


Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.

Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?

He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.

Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.

He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

The same God who names every star also sends snow like wool and melts the ice with his word, a tenderness echoed in <a href="/bible/drc/psalms/chapter-34/18">Psalms 34:18</a>. Praise continues unbroken into <a href="/bible/drc/psalms/chapter-148">Psalms 148</a>.