Psalm 147:12-20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹² Extol the Lord, O Jerusalem!
    Praise your God, O Zion!
¹³ For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
    he blesses your children within you.
¹⁴ He grants peace^[a] within your borders;
    he fills you with the finest of wheat.^(A)
15 He sends out his command to the earth;
    his word runs swiftly.^(B)
16 He gives snow like wool;
    he scatters frost like ashes.^(C)
17 He hurls down hail like crumbs—
    who can stand before his cold?
¹⁸ He sends out his word and melts them;
    he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.^(D)
19 He declares his word to Jacob,
    his statutes and ordinances to Israel.^(E)
20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
    they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!^(F)