1Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Sion. 2For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you. 3He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the Lit. fat of wheat. flour of wheat. 4He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly. 5He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes. 6Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold? 7He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow. 8He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel. 9He has not done so to Gr. every. any other nation; and he has not shown them his judgments.