Praise the Lord, Jerusalem

There are still a few psalms to get to in Paul Mason’s astonishing Psalms for All Time. In volume three we have Psalm 147 for the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Year A.

With this psalm chosen for Corpus Christi there is a remnant of the triumphalist Catholicism of the the past.

Response

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. Alleluia, Alleluia!

or

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

1 O Jerusalem, glorify the Lord!

O Zion, praise your God!

He has strengthened the bars of your gates;

He has blessed your children within you.

2 He established peace on your borders;

He gives you your fill of finest wheat.

He sends out his word to the earth,

And swiftly runs his command.

3 He reveals his word to Jacob;

To Israel, his decrees and judgments.

He has not dealt thus with other nations;

He has not taught them his judgements. Alleluia!

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