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| 1 Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness. |
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 doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah Soundeth all His praise |
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| 3 O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times. |
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| 4 Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation. |
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| 5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance. |
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| 6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly. |
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| 7 Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph. |
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| 8 And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might, |
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| 9 And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness. |
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| 10 And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy. |
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| 11 And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left. |
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| 12 And they believe in His words, they sing His praise, |
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| 13 They have hasted forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel. |
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| 14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert. |
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| 15 And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul. |
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| 16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one. |
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| 17 Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram. |
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| 18 And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked. |
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| 19 They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image, |
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| 20 And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs. |
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| 21 They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt, |
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| 22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph. |
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| 23 And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying. |
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 kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word. |
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| 25 And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah. |
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| 26 And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness, |
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| 27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands. |
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| 28 And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead, |
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| 29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them, |
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| 30 And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained, |
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| 31 And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations unto the age. |
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| 32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes, |
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| 33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips. |
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| 34 They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them, |
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| 35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works, |
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| 36 And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare. |
Served their idols – Sought after wizards, necromancers-- mediums of the fallen spirits. R5910:2
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| 37 And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers, |
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| 38 And they shed innocent blood Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood. |
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| 39 And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings. |
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| 40 And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance. |
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| 41 And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them, |
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| 42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand. |
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| 43 Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity. |
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| 44 And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry, |
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| 45 And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness. |
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| 46 And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors. |
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| 47 Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise. |
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| 48 Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!' |
From everlasting – From all eternity; without any beginning. E86
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