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| 1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Thy name give honour, For Thy kindness, for Thy truth. |
Not unto us – An exhortation to humility. R5901:1 Psalms 115:6
But they smell not – Ruach, exert invisible power--sense of smell. E174
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| 2 Why do the nations say, 'Where, pray, [is] their God. |
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| 3 And our God [is] in the heavens, All that He hath pleased He hath done. |
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| 4 Their idols [are] silver and gold, work of man's hands, |
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| 5 A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not, |
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| 6 Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not, |
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| 7 Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not; |
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| 8 Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them. |
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| 9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah, 'Their help and their shield [is] He.' |
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| 10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah, 'Their help and their shield [is] He.' |
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| 11 Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah, 'Their help and their shield [is] He.' |
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| 12 Jehovah hath remembered us, He blesseth, He blesseth the house of Israel, He blesseth the house of Aaron, |
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| 13 He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great. |
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| 14 Jehovah addeth to you, to you, and to your sons. |
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| 15 Blessed [are] ye of Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth, |
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| 16 The heavens the heavens [are] Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men, |
The children of men – As represented by father Adam, and conditioned upon obedience and loyalty. R5335:5
God's guidance in the affairs of earth was originally intended. R5304:3
The race as a whole will have possession of the earth. R5183:1, R5112:1
God would have the prosperous concentrate their mental powers not upon the personal aggregation of wealth, but upon generous schemes for the uplifting of the entire race. R5112:5
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| 17 The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence. |
The dead praise not – But the resurrection of the dead will bring all to a full knowledge of the truth. R890:1
Down into silence – "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave" (Eccl. 9:10); not a place where shrieks and groans are heard. R2599:2, R2604:4
Death is a place of darkness (Job 10:21); of no remembrance (Psa. 6:5); a land of forgetfulness (Psa. 88:11) where there is neither work, nor device, nor wisdom, nor knowledge (Eccl. 9:5,10; Job 14:21). CR209:2*; HG194:5; HG216:2
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| 18 And we, we bless Jah, From henceforth, and unto the age. Praise ye Jah! |
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