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| 1 To the Overseer. By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' A song. |
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| God [is] to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely. |
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| 2 Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas. |
Mountains – Kingdoms
Into the midst of the sea – The ungovernable masses. Brother Russell looked at this text (in Dec. 1885) and at the policies of the Russian Czar and concluded that they would be swept away by revolution."The policy of Russia, for instance, is to concede nothing to the people, but to retain all its oppressive power intact. It will not melt; therefore it shall be forcibly carried in the tumult of revolution "into the midst of the sea." The sea in symbolic language represents the masses of the people unrestrained by law and order; hence the carrying of a mountain into the midst of the sea, would signify the overwhelming of a government in a revolutionary uprising of the masses." R815 |
| 3 Roar troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah. |
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| 4 A river its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. |
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| 5 God [is] in her midst she is not moved, God doth help her at the turn of the morn! |
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| 6 Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth. |
The kingdoms were moved – Here God is giving us the key that mountains represent kingdoms. In verse 2 it was the mountains that were shaken (moved), here it is the kingdoms. See HGL427:2. |
| 7 Jehovah of Hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob. Selah. |
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| 8 Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth, |
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| 9 Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire. |
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| 10 Desist, and know that I [am] God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth. |
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| 11 Jehovah of hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob! Selah. |
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