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| 1 Praise ye Jah! For [it is] good to praise our God, For pleasant comely [is] praise. |
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| 2 Building Jerusalem [is] Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth. |
Outcasts of Israel – Assembling to his standards the outcasts of nominal spiritual Israel. (Isa. 66:5) R438:2
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| 3 Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs. |
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| 4 Appointing the number of the stars, To all them He giveth names. |
The stars – The Lord's bright ones. R438:2
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| 5 Great [is] our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration. |
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| 6 Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth. |
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| 7 Answer ye to Jehovah with thanksgiving, Sing ye to our God with a harp. |
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| 8 Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up [on] mountains, |
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| 9 Giving to the beast its food, To the young of the ravens that call. |
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| 10 Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. |
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| 11 Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness. |
Them that fear him – Earnestly watchful of every word and act, trying to please the Lord, and copy his character. R2289:6
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| 12 Glorify, O Jerusalem, Jehovah, Praise thy God, O Zion. |
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| 13 For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst. |
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| 14 Who is making thy border peace, [With] the fat of wheat He satisfieth Thee. |
Finest of the wheat – The wealth of our Father's storehouse. R5538:3
It is necessary that the New Creature be fed upon it. R5735:6
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| 15 Who is sending forth His saying [on] earth, Very speedily doth His word run. |
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| 16 Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth. |
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| 17 Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand |
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| 18 He sendeth forth His word and melteth them, He causeth His wind to blow the waters flow. |
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| 19 Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. |
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| 20 He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah! |
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