The Lord doth build up [a]Jerusalem, and gather together the dispersed of Israel.

He healeth those that are [b]broken in heart, and bindeth up their sores.

He [c]counteth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 147:2 Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it cannot be destroyed, though the members thereof be dispersed, and seem as it were for a time to be cut off.
  2. Psalm 147:3 With affliction, or sorrow for sin.
  3. Psalm 147:4 Though it seem to man incredible, that God should assemble his Church, being so dispersed, yet nothing can be too hard to him that can number and name all the stars.

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