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| 1 Praise ye Yah, For it is good, to make melody to our GOD,–For it is delightful, seemly is praise! |
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| 2 Yahweh, is building Jerusalem, The outcasts of Israel, will he gather together. |
Outcasts of Israel – Assembling to his standards the outcasts of nominal spiritual Israel. (Isa. 66:5) R438:2
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| 3 He is healing the broken in heart,–and binding up their hurts. |
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| 4 Counting the number of the stars, To all of them–names, he giveth. |
The stars – The Lord's bright ones. R438:2
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| 5 Great is our Lord, and of abounding strength, And, his knowledge, cannot be expressed. |
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| 6 Yahweh, relieveth the humbled! casting the lawless down to the earth. |
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| 7 Respond to Yahweh with thanksgiving, Make melody to our God with the lyre. |
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| 8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass: |
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| 9 Giving, to the beast, its food, to the young ravens, when they cry. |
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| 10 Not in the strength of the horse, doth he delight, Not in the legs of a man, hath he pleasure: |
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| 11 Yahweh, hath pleasure, in them who revere him, in them who wait for his lovingkindness. |
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 Laud thou, O Jerusalem, Yahweh, Praise thy God, O Zion: |
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| 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy children in thy midst: |
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| 14 Who maketh thy boundaries to be peace, With the marrow of wheat, doth he satisfy thee:
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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 sendeth his utterance to the earth, How swiftly, runneth his word! |
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| 16 Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar-frost–like ashes, he scattereth: |
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| 17 Casting forth his ice like crumbs, Before his cold, who can stand? |
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| 18 He sendeth forth his word and melteth them, He causeth his wind to blow, the waters, stream along: |
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| 19 Declaring his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his regulations, unto Israel. |
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| 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah! |
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