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| 1 [[To the Chief Musician. On "Muthlabben." A Melody of David.]] I will praise Yahweh with all my heart, I will recount all thy wonderful doings: |
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| 2 I will rejoice and exult in thee, I will praise in song, thy Name, O most High. |
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| 3 When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished from before thee; |
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| 4 For thou hast executed my right and my cause, Thou hast sat on the throne, judging righteously: |
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| 5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast destroyed the lawless one, Their name, hast thou wiped out, to times age-abiding and beyond. |
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| 6 O enemy! complete are the desolations, evermore,–even cities, hast thou uprooted, The memory of, them, hath perished. |
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| 7 But, Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, will sit, Ready for judgment, is his throne; |
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| 8 And, he, will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to peoples, in uprightness. |
And he shall – In the Millennial age. F396
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| 9 Thus be Yahweh a refuge for the crushed one, a refuge for times of destitution: |
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| 10 Thus let them who know thy Name, put confidence in thee, that thou hast not forsaken the searchers for thee, O Yahweh. |
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| 11 Sing ye praise to Yahweh, who is seated in Zion, Tell among the peoples his doings. |
Dwelleth In Zion – The spiritual Church of God. A297; D23; T33
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| 12 When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed. |
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| 13 Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death; |
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| 14 That I may recount all thy praises, In the gates of the daughter of Zion, may exult in thy salvation. |
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| 15 The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot. |
That they made – Those who dig pits for others are likely to fall therein themselves. R2503:4
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| 16 To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. [Resounding music. Selah.] |
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| 17 The lawless, shall return, to hades, all nations forgetful of 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, not always, shall the needy, be forgotten,–[Nor,] the hope of the oppressed, perish for ever. |
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| 19 Rise! Yahweh! let man not prevail, let the nations be judged before thee. |
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| 20 Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them,–Let the nations know [that] they are men. [Selah.] |
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