| Scripture |
Expanded Comments |
| |
|
| 1 Praise ye Yah, Praise, O my soul, Yahweh. |
|
| 2 I will praise Yahweh while I live! I will make melody to my God while I continue! |
|
| 3 Do not ye trust in nobles, in a son of man who hath no deliverance: |
|
| 4 His spirit, goeth forth, he returneth to his ground, In that very day, his thoughts perish. |
His thoughts perish – Contrary to the teachings of Spiritualism. R2170:2
"The dead know not anything." (Eccl. 9:5) R4792:1
There is no conscious existence after the breath leaves the body. R802:3, R1881:5
His personality, the result of his hereditary and prenatal influences, combined with his experiences, perishes, for it cannot exist without a body. R5166:2
Whoever would believe the Scriptural doctrine of the resurrection must also believe the Scriptural doctrine respecting death--that death is death, the cessation of life. R4791:6
|
| |
|
| 5 How happy is he that hath the GOD of Jacob as his help, whose hope, is on Yahweh his God:– |
|
| 6 Who made The heavens and the earth, The sea and all that is therein, Who keepeth faithfulness to times age-abiding: |
|
| 7 Who executeth justice for the oppressed, who giveth food to the famishing, Yahweh, who liberateth prisoners; |
Looseth the prisoners – Setting free the prisoners of sin and death. OV387:5; A112
|
| 8 Yahweh, who opened [the eyes of] the blind, Yahweh, who raiseth the prostrate, Yahweh, who loveth the righteous; |
|
| 9 Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth,–but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth. |
Relieveth the fatherless – The Lord's special care and compassion are over the weak, helpless, and bereaved ones. Q781:4
|
| 10 Yahweh, will reign, to times age-abiding, Thy God, O Zion, to generation after generation. Praise ye Yah! |
|