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| 1 Come, let us make a joyful noise to Yahweh, Let us shout in triumph, 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 O let us come before his face with thanksgiving, With the sounds of strings, let us shout aloud to him. |
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| 3 For, a great GOD, is Yahweh, 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 whose hand, are the hidden recesses of the earth, And, the peaks of the mountains, are his; |
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| 5 Whose, is the sea, for, he, made it, And, the dry land, his hands, did form. |
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| 6 Enter! let us bow down, and bend low, Let us kneel, before Yahweh our maker; |
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| 7 For, he, is our God, And, we, are the people of his pasture, and the flock of his hand. Today, if, to his voice, ye will hearken, |
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| 8 Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, As on the day of Massah, in the desert; |
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, tested me, They proved me, yea they also saw what I could do. |
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| 10 Forty years, loathed I that generation, So I said–A people going astray in heart, they are, Even 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 And I sware in mine anger,–Verily they shall not enter into my rest. |
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