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| 1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. |
LORD – Jehovah. E45
Dwelling place – Refuge. The city of refuge which God has provided for us is Christ, under the cover of his merit, his robe of righteousness. R3116:1
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| Lord, a habitation Thou Thou hast been, To us in generation and generation, |
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| 2 Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God. |
From everlasting – From all eternity, without a beginning. E86; CR247:1; R338:4, R421:5, R3920:3, R4107:2
His qualities and attributes have always been the same. R5209:3
With unlimited time, he is working out his plan with great deliberation. R5251:3
Back of all inanimate causes there must be an intelligent first cause, an intelligent designer, and that is God. R675:6
Contrary to Mormonism. HG731:4
To everlasting – Self -centered, self -contained, the same yesterday, today and forever, he changes not. SM483:4 Psalms 90:3
Man to destruction – A condition of peaceful unconsciousness. R2172:3
As a natural result of the penalty on father Adam. E363; F331
To sheol, hades, the grave. HG228:3
Not torture. R649:3, R846:4
And sayest, Return – In resurrection, because the price is paid. E353; R615:5*; HG333:5
The revival of man's life will not make him immortal or incapable of destruction. HG358:3
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| 3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. |
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| 4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. |
For a thousand years – From the divine standpoint "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years." (2 Pet. 3:8) "In the day that thou eatest thereof." (Gen. 2:17) SM151:2
It was within one of these "days" that Adam died at the age of 930. F332
God has permitted a reign of evil during six of these thousand-year days. PD18/26
"A little while and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me." (John 16:16) R702:4
But as yesterday – It is only as measured by the shortness of present life that the 6000 years of evil seems very long. R1092:4
The lapse of time between death and the awakening will be nothing to the dead when it is past, since they are entirely unconscious of it. R1017:6
Watch in the night – To God a thousand years are but a watch in the night. R5210:3
Showing that even a shorter period than a "day" can be referred to as a thousand years. SM151:2
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| 5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. |
They are as a sleep – Rest, or peaceful sleep. R2172:3
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| 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered. |
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| 7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. |
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| 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, |
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| 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. |
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| 10 Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. |
And we fly away – Into the land of the enemy, the prisonhouse of death. R4792:6
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| 11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger And according to Thy fear Thy wrath |
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| 12 To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom. |
Number our days – Counting the days as so many blessings, so many privileges, so many opportunities to serve. R2896:6
"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord." (Rom. 12:11) R1532:2
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| 13 Turn back, O Jehovah, till when And repent concerning Thy servants. |
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| 14 Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days. |
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| 15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil. |
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| 16 Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons. |
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| 17 And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it! |
And let the beauty – The justice, mercy, wisdom and power. R2570:5
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