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| 1 [BOOK THE FOURTH] [[A Prayer by Moses, the Man of God.]] Lord! a dwelling-place, hast, thou, become to us, From generation to generation: |
LORD – Jehovah. E45
Dwelling place – Refuge. The city of refuge which God has provided for us is Christ, under the cover of his merit, his robe of righteousness. R3116:1
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| 2 Before, the mountains, were born, Or thou hadst brought forth the earth and the world, Even, from age to age, thou, [wast] GOD. |
From everlasting – From all eternity, without a beginning. E86; CR247:1; R338:4, R421:5, R3920:3, R4107:2
His qualities and attributes have always been the same. R5209:3
With unlimited time, he is working out his plan with great deliberation. R5251:3
Back of all inanimate causes there must be an intelligent first cause, an intelligent designer, and that is God. R675:6
Contrary to Mormonism. HG731:4
To everlasting – Self -centered, self -contained, the same yesterday, today and forever, he changes not. SM483:4 Psalms 90:3
Man to destruction – A condition of peaceful unconsciousness. R2172:3
As a natural result of the penalty on father Adam. E363; F331
To sheol, hades, the grave. HG228:3
Not torture. R649:3, R846:4
And sayest, Return – In resurrection, because the price is paid. E353; R615:5*; HG333:5
The revival of man's life will not make him immortal or incapable of destruction. HG358:3
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| 3 Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said–Return, ye sons of Adam! |
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| 4 For, a thousand years, in thine eyes, [are], As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or [as] a watch in the night. |
For a thousand years – From the divine standpoint "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years." (2 Pet. 3:8) "In the day that thou eatest thereof." (Gen. 2:17) SM151:2
It was within one of these "days" that Adam died at the age of 930. F332
God has permitted a reign of evil during six of these thousand-year days. PD18/26
"A little while and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me." (John 16:16) R702:4
But as yesterday – It is only as measured by the shortness of present life that the 6000 years of evil seems very long. R1092:4
The lapse of time between death and the awakening will be nothing to the dead when it is past, since they are entirely unconscious of it. R1017:6
Watch in the night – To God a thousand years are but a watch in the night. R5210:3
Showing that even a shorter period than a "day" can be referred to as a thousand years. SM151:2
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| 5 Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up, |
They are as a sleep – Rest, or peaceful sleep. R2172:3
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| 6 In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered. |
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| 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed; |
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| 8 Thou hast set, Our iniquities before thee, Our secret near the luminary of thy face. |
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| 9 For, all our days, decline in thy wrath,–We end our years like a sigh. |
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| 10 The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away. |
And we fly away – Into the land of the enemy, the prisonhouse of death. R4792:6
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| 11 Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath! |
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| 12 How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom. |
Number our days – Counting the days as so many blessings, so many privileges, so many opportunities to serve. R2896:6
"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord." (Rom. 12:11) R1532:2
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| 13 Return, Yahweh, oh how long? And have compassion upon thy servants; |
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| 14 Satisfy us, in the morning, with thy lovingkindness, That we may shout aloud and be glad, Throughout all our days. |
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| 15 Make us glad, according to, The days thou hast humbled us, The years we have seen misfortune: |
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| 16 Let thy work, appear unto thy servants, And, thy majesty, upon their children; |
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| 17 And let the delightfulness of Adonay our God be upon us,–And, the work of our hands, establish thou upon us, Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. |
And let the beauty – The justice, mercy, wisdom and power. R2570:5
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