Psalm 147:12-20
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save your people,
the remnant of Israel.’
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.