Psalms 147:12

New King James Version

Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Praise the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Prayse the Lorde, O Ierusalem: prayse thy God, O Zion.

Christian Standard Bible®
Exalt the Lord, Jerusalem;praise your God, Zion!

Hebrew Names Version
Praise the LORD, Yerushalayim! Praise your God, Tziyon!

Easy-to-Read Version
Jerusalem, praise the Lord ! Zion, praise your God!

Amplified Bible
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

American Standard Version
Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; Praise thy God, O Zion.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone in Jerusalem, come and praise the Lord your God!

Complete Jewish Bible
Glorify Adonai , Yerushalayim! Praise your God, Tziyon!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

King James Version (1611)
Praise the Lord, O Ierusalem: praise thy God, O Zion.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Sion.

English Revised Version
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

Berean Standard Bible
Exalt the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion!

Lexham English Bible
Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion,

Literal Translation
Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.

New Century Version
Jerusalem, praise the Lord ; Jerusalem, praise your God.

New English Translation
Extol the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

New Living Translation
Glorify the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

New Life Bible
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Laud thou, O Jerusalem, Yahweh, Praise thy God, O Zion:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(147-1) Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.

George Lamsa Translation
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.

Good News Translation
Praise the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

New American Standard Bible
Praise the LORD, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!

King James Version
Praise the Lord , O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Prayse God O Hierusalem: prayse thy Lorde O Sion.

New Revised Standard
Praise the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Darby Translation
Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jerusalem, herie thou the Lord; Syon, herie thou thi God.

Young's Literal Translation
Glorify, O Jerusalem, Jehovah, Praise thy God, O Zion.

World English Bible
Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!

Revised Standard Version
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Update Bible Version
Praise Yahweh, O Jerusalem; Praise your God, O Zion.

Webster's Bible Translation
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

Bible in Basic English
Give praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; give praise to your God, O Zion.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Prayse ye LORDE o Ierusale, prayse yi God o Sion.

THE MESSAGE
Jerusalem, worship God ! Zion, praise your God! He made your city secure, he blessed your children among you. He keeps the peace at your borders, he puts the best bread on your tables. He launches his promises earthward— how swift and sure they come! He spreads snow like a white fleece, he scatters frost like ashes, He broadcasts hail like birdseed— who can survive his winter? Then he gives the command and it all melts; he breathes on winter—suddenly it's spring!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Praise the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Legacy Standard Bible
Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem!Praise your God, O Zion!

Contextual Overview

¹² Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! ¹³ For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you. ¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders, And fills you with the finest wheat. ¹⁵ He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; ¹⁷ He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold? ¹⁸ He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

praise thy God: Psalms 135:19-21, Psalms 146:10, Psalms 149:2, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 52:7, Joel 2:23

Reciprocal: Psalms 69:35 - God Isaiah 33:13 - ye that are near Isaiah 41:10 - for I am thy God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem,.... The inhabitants of it, as Kimchi; not Jerusalem in a literal sense, for this respects future time, as Aben Ezra; the world to come, the times of the Messiah: and intends the spiritual Jerusalem, as Arama; that which is free, the mother of us all; the Gospel church, and the members of it; which have great reason to praise the Lord, for their special blessings and peculiar privileges; see Galatians 4:26;

praise thy God, O Zion; not the house and family of David, as R. Obadiah; nor the priests and Levites in the temple, as others; but the same as before, the church and people of God; the Mount Zion God has loved and chose for his habitation; the city of our solemnities in Gospel times; the perfection of beauty and joy of the whole earth; whose God and King is Christ; and whom Zion and all her children should praise, being her incarnate God, Immanuel, God manifest in the flesh. With this verse, the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, begin the psalm.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem ... - In addition to this general praise in which all may unite, there are special reasons why Jerusalem and its inhabitants should praise God: just as now, in addition to the general reasons pertaining to all people why they should praise God, there are special reasons why Christians - why his redeemed people - should do it. What those reasons, as pertaining to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, were, is specified in the following verses.