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| 1 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation; |
A joyful noise – All who have heart sentiments of thankfulness and gratitude should be encouraged to make a joyful noise unto the Lord, without trained choirs being necessary. R2511:5
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| 2 Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms. |
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| 3 For Jehovah is a great *God, and a great king above all gods. |
For the LORD – Jehovah. E67
Is a great God – El, mighty one. E67
Above all gods – Elohim, mighty ones. E67
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| 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also: |
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| 5 The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land2. |
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| 6 Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker. |
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| 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice, |
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| 8 Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness; |
In the provocation – While passing through the wilderness, the children of Israel aroused his indignation repeatedly. R5125:1
As in the day – Forty years, not 24 hours. B47; F19; PD3/8; HG583:4
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| 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. |
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| 10 Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; |
Forty years long – Typifying the 19 centuries of the period of Jewish disfavor. R3079:3
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| 11 So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest. |
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