Jerusalem restored and creation commanded: Restoration, stars, rain, and care for the lowly

Pleasant praise is for a God who rebuilds the city and counts the stars

Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Good, pleasant, comely: praise is fitting. Then the fitting object is named in one breath as city-builder, gatherer of outcasts, healer of the brokenhearted, binder of wounds, and namer of stars. The same greatness that is unsearchable in counting lights is local in binding a chest.

Weather and animals are fed, and the LORD does not delight in muscle

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. Meek lifted, wicked cast down, rain, grass, beasts, crying ravens: hallelujah includes ecology and justice. Horse-strength and human legs are the military body. Pleasure is taken in fear and hoped-for hesed. The unit is restoration poetry, not a scolding of athletes, and not a claim that every outcast has already been gathered.