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| 1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. |
A joyful noise – All who have heart sentiments of thankfulness and gratitude should be encouraged to make a joyful noise unto the Lord, without trained choirs being necessary. R2511:5
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| 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. |
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| 3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. |
For the LORD – Jehovah. E67
Is a great God – El, mighty one. E67
Above all gods – Elohim, mighty ones. E67
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| 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. |
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| 5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. |
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| 6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. |
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| 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, |
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| 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: |
In the provocation – While passing through the wilderness, the children of Israel aroused his indignation repeatedly. R5125:1
As in the day – Forty years, not 24 hours. B47; F19; PD3/8; HG583:4
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| 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. |
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| 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: |
Forty years long – Typifying the 19 centuries of the period of Jewish disfavor. R3079:3
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| 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. |
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