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| 1 Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever. |
His mercy – Which sent his Son to be our Redeemer. R5427:3
The wrath of God is always just and tempered with mercy. HG319:5; R5427:3; R2613:2
Endureth for ever – To a full completeness. R5427:3 Psalms 106:12
They sang his praise – In the song of Moses recorded in Exo. 15:1-20. R3998:6
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| 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? who can shew forth all his praise? |
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| 3 Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. |
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| 4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with thy favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation: |
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| 5 That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. |
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| 6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. |
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| 7 Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea. |
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| 8 Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might. |
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| 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness. |
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| 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. |
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| 11 And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left. |
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| 12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. |
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| 13 They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel: |
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| 14 And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert. |
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| 15 Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. |
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| 16 And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah. |
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| 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram; |
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| 18 And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked. |
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| 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image; |
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| 20 And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. |
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| 21 They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt, |
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| 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea. |
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| 23 And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them2. |
Stood before him – God dealt with only one man in connection with the making of the Law covenant--Moses. R1725:6
In the breach – See comments on Psa. 105:26. Psalms 106:35
Learned their works – Grecian philosophy, including the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. R5910:3
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| 24 And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word, |
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| 25 But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah. |
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| 26 And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness; |
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| 27 And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. |
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| 28 And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead; |
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| 29 And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them. |
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| 30 Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed; |
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| 31 And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore. |
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| 32 And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account; |
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| 33 For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. |
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| 34 They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them; |
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| 35 But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works; |
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| 36 And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them: |
Served their idols – Sought after wizards, necromancers-- mediums of the fallen spirits. R5910:2
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| 37 And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons, |
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| 38 And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. |
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| 39 And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings. |
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| 40 Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance; |
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| 41 And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them: |
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| 42 And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. |
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| 43 Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity. |
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| 44 But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry; |
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| 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses; |
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| 46 And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives. |
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| 47 Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. |
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| 48 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah! |
From everlasting – From all eternity; without any beginning. E86
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