What does Psalms Chapter 147 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded. Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times. Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Chapter breakdown

Lauda Jerusalem has a heading of special favors and an edition statement that the Hebrew joins this psalm with the preceding one. Its numbered verses remain 12–20. Alleluia precedes calls for Jerusalem and Sion to praise. God strengthened gate bolts, blessed children, made borders peaceful and fills with fat corn. Wheat, a prior assault and everlasting physical security are not substituted.

His speech is sent earthward and word runs swiftly. Snow is like wool, mists like ashes, crystal like morsels; the speaker asks who can stand the cold. The separate note identifies crystal as ice and says some understand hail, preserving alternatives. He shall send word and melt, cause wind to blow and waters to run. A witnessed winter thaw or specified warm wind is not added.

He declares word to Jacob and justices and judgments to Israel, has not done in like manner to every nation and has not manifested judgments to them; Alleluia closes. The scope is not rewritten as an absolute claim about any other nation, nor expanded into a new Logos or salvation-history doctrine.

The story inside

Opening: Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded. Development: Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times. Conclusion: Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Lessons worth keeping

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Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded.
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Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times.
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Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 67071–67071
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
Lines 67073–67074
Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.
Lines 67076–67077
Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.
Lines 67079–67080
Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.
Lines 67084–67085
He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?
Lines 67087–67088
He sendeth his crystal.... That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail, which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.
Lines 67093–67094
Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.
Lines 67096–67097
He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.