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| 1 Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah. |
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| 2 I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist. |
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| 3 Trust not in princes in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance. |
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| 4 His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished. |
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 O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God, |
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| 6 Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age, |
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| 7 Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry. |
Looseth the prisoners – Setting free the prisoners of sin and death. OV387:5; A112
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| 8 Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous, |
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| 9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down. |
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 doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah! |
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