Praise for Jerusalem’s Restoration and Prosperity.
Praise the LORD!For ait is good to sing praises to our gracious and majestic God;Praise is bbecoming and appropriate.Ps 92:1; 135:3Ps 33:12 The LORD is abuilding up Jerusalem;He is bgathering together the exiles of Israel.Ps 51:18; 102:16Deut 30:3; Ps 106:47; Is 11:12; 56:8; Ezek 39:283 He heals the abrokenheartedAnd bbinds up their wounds healing their pain and comforting their sorrow. Ps 34:18; Is 57:15; 61:1; Luke 4:18Ps 34:18; 51:17; Is 61:1Job 5:18; Is 30:26; Ezek 34:164 He acounts the number of the stars;He bcalls them all by their names.Gen 15:5Is 40:265 aGreat is our majestic and mighty Lord and abundant in strength;His bunderstanding is inexhaustible infinite, boundless.Ps 48:1; 145:3Is 40:286 The LORD alifts up the humble;He casts the wicked down to the ground.Ps 37:24; 146:8, 9
7 aSing to the LORD with thanksgiving;Sing praises to our God with the lyre,Ps 33:2; 95:1, 28 Who acovers the heavens with clouds,Who bprovides rain for the earth,Who cmakes grass grow on the mountains.Job 26:8Job 5:10; 38:26; Ps 104:13Job 38:27; Ps 104:149 He agives to the beast its food,And to the byoung ravens that for which they cry.Ps 104:27, 28; 145:15Job 38:41; Matt 6:2610 He does not delight in the strength of the ahorse,bNor does He take pleasure in the legs of a man.Ps 33:171 Sam 16:711 The LORD afavors those who fear and worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and obedience,bThose who wait for His mercy and lovingkindness. Ps 145:20Ps 149:4Ps 33:18
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!Praise your God, O Zion!13 For He has strengthened the abars of your gates,He has bblessed your children within you.Neh 3:3; 7:3Ps 37:2614 He amakes peace in your borders;He bsatisfies you with cthe finest of the wheat.Ps 29:11; Is 54:13; 60:17, 18Ps 132:15Deut 32:14; Ps 81:1615 He sends His acommand to the earth;His bword runs very swiftly.Job 37:12; Ps 148:5Ps 104:416 He gives to the earth asnow like a blanket of wool;He scatters the bfrost like ashes.Job 37:6; Ps 148:8Job 38:2917 He casts out His aice like fragments;Who can stand before His bcold?Job 37:10Job 37:918 He asends out His word and melts the ice;He bcauses His wind to blow and the waters to flow.Ps 33:9; 107:20; 147:15Ps 107:2519 He adeclares His word to Jacob,His bstatutes and His ordinances to Israel. Mal 4:4Deut 33:3, 4Mal 4:420 He ahas not dealt this way with any other nation;They have bnot known understood, appreciated, heeded, or cherished His ordinances.Praise the LORD! Ps 79:6; Jer 10:25Deut 4:7, 8, 32-34; Rom 3:1, 2Ps 79:6; Jer 10:25