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| 1 To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David. I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works. |
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| 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High. |
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| 3 When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence: |
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| 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously. |
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| 5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. |
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| 6 O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. --Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished. |
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| 7 But Jehovah sitteth for ever; he hath ordained his throne for judgment. |
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| 8 And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity. |
And he shall – In the Millennial age. F396
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| 9 And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge in times of distress. |
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| 10 And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. |
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| 11 Sing psalms to Jehovah who dwelleth in Zion; tell among the peoples his doings. |
Dwelleth In Zion – The spiritual Church of God. A297; D23; T33
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| 12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten. |
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| 13 Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death: |
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| 14 That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation. |
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| 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken. |
That they made – Those who dig pits for others are likely to fall therein themselves. R2503:4
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| 16 Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. |
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| 17 The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God. |
The wicked – Those who forget God after clear knowledge. E361; R2610:1; HG498:5
This text applies to the time when the highway of holiness is set up. R2610:2, R553:2
Saints and sinners all go into Sheol now. R553:5
Turned into hell – Shub, returned, into Sheol, oblivion, Second Death. E361; R2610:4; OV174:6; Q329:3
Into the condition of death. R553:2
Showing that some go into hell once, come out of hell, learn of God, forget him and are returned to hell. HG734:3*
Since they are returned to hell, it must be to the Second Death. R769:5, R1298:3*, R3084:1
Nations – Goi, heathen, Gentiles, people. All who, under that full knowledge, do not become Israelites indeed. R2610:3
That forget God – That do not become God's covenant people. R2610:3
They must first have known him. Q329:2; R2610:1
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| 18 For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever. |
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| 19 Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight. |
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| 20 Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. |
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