Lauda, Jerusalem.
The church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and
favours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the
foregoing.
Alleluia.
147:12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
147:13. Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath
blessed thy children within thee.
147:14. Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the
fat of corn.
147:15. Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth
swiftly.
147:16. Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.
147:17. He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the
face of his cold?
He sendeth his crystal. . .That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail,
which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.
147:18. He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall
blow, and the waters shall run.
147:19. Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments
to Israel.
147:20. He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his
judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.