¹²Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
   Praise your God, O Zion!
¹³For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
   he blesses your children within you.
¹⁴He grants peace^* within your borders;
   he fills you with the finest of wheat.
¹⁵He sends out his command to the earth;
   his word runs swiftly.
¹⁶He gives snow like wool;
   he scatters frost like ashes.
¹⁷He hurls down hail like crumbs—
   who can stand before his cold?
¹⁸He sends out his word, and melts them;
   he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.
¹⁹He declares his word to Jacob,
   his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
²⁰He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
   they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!