# Psalms 147.3

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**Book:** [Psalms](/codex/psalms/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 1. Praise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is comely. 2. Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
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> **3. He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.**
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> 4. He counteth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names. 5. Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. (Psalms 147:1-5, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 1. Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. 2. Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
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> **3. He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.**
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> 4. He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. 5. Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite. (Psalms 147:1-5, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 1. Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. 2. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
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> **3. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. <sup>wounds: Heb. griefs</sup>**
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> 4. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. 5. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. <sup>his: Heb. of his understanding there is no number</sup> (Psalms 147:1-5, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 1. Praise ye Jah! For [it is] good to praise our God, For pleasant, comely [is] praise. 2. Building Jerusalem [is] Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth.
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> **3. Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.**
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> 4. Appointing the number of the stars, To all them He giveth names. 5. Great [is] our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration. (Psalms 147:1-5, YLT)

## Setting

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## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

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## Quoted in

**Concepts:**

- [100 Verses of Compassion and God's Goodness](/codex/100-verses-of-compassion-and-gods-goodness/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

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## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.