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1 [[A Melody, a Song, For the Sabbath-day.]] It is good to give thanks to Yahweh, And to sing praises unto thy Name, O Most High; |
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2 To declare, in the morning, thy lovingkindness, And thy faithfulness at night; |
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3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon a harp, With resounding music on the lyre. |
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4 For thou hast made me glad, O Yahweh, in thy doing, In the works of thy hands, will I shout for joy. |
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5 How great have grown thy works, Yahweh, [How] very deep are laid thy plans! |
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6 A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, a dullard, cannot discern this:– |
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7 When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever. |
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8 But, thou, shalt be on high age-abidingly, O Yahweh. |
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9 For lo! thine enemies, Yahweh, For lo! thine enemies, shall perish, They shall be scattered–all the workers of iniquity; |
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10 But thou wilt exalt, as [those of] the buffalo, my horn, I have been anointed, with fresh oil. |
But my horn – Horns are symbols of power. T42
With fresh oil – Type of the holy Spirit. T116
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11 So hath mine eye descried them who were lying in wait for me,–Of my wicked assailants, mine ears, shall hear. |
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12 The righteous, like the palm-tree, shall thrive, Like the cedar in Lebanon, shall he grow; |
The righteous – And they only. C371
Shall flourish – In the Millennial age, in Christ's Kingdom. C371; R492:6
Like a cedar – Symbol of everlasting human life. T109
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13 They who are planted in the house of Yahweh, In the courts of our God, shall flourish; |
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14 Still shall they bear fruit in old age, Vigorous and fresh, shall they be:
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15 To declare that upright is Yahweh, My Rock, and no perversity in him. |
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