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| 1 Give ye thanks to Yahweh–For he is good, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness. |
O give thanks – This Psalms was probably written for the dedication of the Temple. R4297:1
The last of the "Great Hillel," which was chanted antiphonally, or rather with responses, accompanied by the flute, on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. R2438:6*
Endureth for ever – The wrath of God is always just, and tempered with mercy. R2613:2, R5427:3; HG319:5
To a full completion. R5427:3
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| 2 I pray you! let Israel, say, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness. |
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| 3 I pray you! let the house of Aaron, say, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness. |
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| 4 I pray you! let them who revere Yahweh, say, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness. |
That fear the LORD – Perfect love casts out slavish, but not reverential, fear. R2986:6
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| 5 Out of a strait, called I on Yah, He answered me with enlargement. |
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| 6 Yahweh, is on my side, I will not fear, What can man, do unto me? |
I will not fear – I shall be content, so long as I have my Father and my Redeemer. R5113:6
Can man do – Or say of me. R5113:6
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| 7 Yahweh, is on my side, with them who help me, I, therefore shall gaze upon them who hate me. |
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| 8 It is, better to seek refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man: |
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| 9 It is, better to seek refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in nobles. |
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| 10 All nations, have compassed me about, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised; |
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| 11 They have compassed me about–yea compassed me about, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised; |
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| 12 They have compassed me about like wax bees, they have blazed up like the fire of thorns, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised. |
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| 13 Thou didst, thrust sore, at me that I might fall, But, Yahweh, hath helped me. |
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| 14 My might and melody, is Yah, and he hath become mine by salvation. |
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| 15 The voice of shouting and salvation, is in the tents of the righteous, The right hand of Yahweh, is doing valiantly: |
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| 16 The right hand of Yahweh, is exalted, The right hand of Yahweh, is doing valiantly. |
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| 17 I shall not die, but live, That I may recount the doings of Yah. |
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| 18 Yah, chastened me sore, But, unto death, did not deliver me. |
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| 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, I will enter therein, I will give thanks unto Yah. |
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| 20 This, is the gate for Yahweh, Such as are righteous, shall enter therein. |
This gate of – This is the gate that leadeth to. D639
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| 21 I will thank thee, because thou hast answered me, And hast become mine, by salvation. |
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| 22 A stone the builders refused, hath become the head of the corner: |
The stone – Christ. R1796:4; C329
Is become – In reference to his triumph in the resurrection and his future glory as King of the whole earth. R1796:4
The head stone – Typified by the top stone of the Great Pyramid. C329; R1982:1,6
A foundation is laid in the heavens, not on earth; the living stones built upon it are cemented to it by heavenly not earthly, attractions. R1982:2
"The chief corner stone" of the Temple which God purposes to build. R2940:2
As of a pyramid. Every under-stone must be built in harmony with the lines and angles of the top-stone, showing how all of God's sons, earthly and heavenly, must be conformed to the image of his Son. A242, A243
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| 23 From Yahweh, hath this come to pass, The same, is marvelous in our eyes. |
It is marvellous – To have the stone "witness," the Great Pyramid, speak, and corroborate the testimony of the Bible, is astounding. C374
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| 24 This is the day, which Yahweh hath made, We will exult, and be glad therein. |
This is the day – The day of earth's salvation; the Millennial day of Christ's glory as the Head and Ruler of the world. C329; D639
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| 25 Ah now, Yahweh, do save, we beseech thee, Ah now, Yahweh, do send success, we beseech thee! |
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| 26 Blessed be he that entereth, In the Name of Yahweh, we have blessed you, out of the house of Yahweh. |
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| 27 Yahweh is GOD, and hath shed on us light,–Bind ye the festal sacrifice with cords, Up to the horns of the altar. |
Shewed us light – Truth. A20
Bind the sacrifice – In the time of sacrifice. R2789:1
Dying daily is a very hard thing to do. R4244:5*
The Vow is a closer binding of the sacrifice of consecration to the altar. R4402:3*
With cords – The cords of love and zeal. R2588:6
In the Tabernacle type, the goat was tied, picturing the covenant of sacrifice which we make. R4864:3
Of the altar – The Brazen altar. R101:1*
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| 28 My GOD, thou art, and I will thank thee,–My Elohim, I will exalt thee. |
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| 29 Give ye thanks to Yahweh–For he is good, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.
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