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| 1 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul. |
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| 2 As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being. |
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| 3 Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. |
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| 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish. |
His thoughts perish – Contrary to the teachings of Spiritualism. R2170:2
"The dead know not anything." (Eccl. 9:5) R4792:1
There is no conscious existence after the breath leaves the body. R802:3, R1881:5
His personality, the result of his hereditary and prenatal influences, combined with his experiences, perishes, for it cannot exist without a body. R5166:2
Whoever would believe the Scriptural doctrine of the resurrection must also believe the Scriptural doctrine respecting death--that death is death, the cessation of life. R4791:6
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| 5 Blessed is he who hath the *God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, |
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| 6 Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever; |
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| 7 Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners; |
Looseth the prisoners – Setting free the prisoners of sin and death. OV387:5; A112
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| 8 Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous; |
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| 9 Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. |
Relieveth the fatherless – The Lord's special care and compassion are over the weak, helpless, and bereaved ones. Q781:4
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| 10 Jehovah will reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Hallelujah! |
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