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| 1 Give ye thanks to Yahweh, Call upon his Name, Make known, among the peoples, his doings; |
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| 2 Sing ye to him, Make ye music to him, Speak ye of all his wonders. |
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| 3 Make your boast in his holy Name, Joyful be the heart of them who are seeking Yahweh. |
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| 4 Search out Yahweh and his strength, Seek diligently his face at all times. |
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| 5 Remember his wonders which he hath done, His portents, and the just decisions of his mouth. |
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| 6 O ye Seed of Abraham–his servants, Sons of Jacob–his chosen ones: |
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| 7 Yahweh himself, is our God, Through all the land, are his just decision. |
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| 8 He hath remembered, unto times age-abiding, his covenant, The word he commanded, to a thousand generations; |
Covenant for ever – Both the Abrahamic covenant (spoken of here) and the New covenant are scripturally styled "The Everlasting covenant, " in contrast with the Law covenant, which passed away. R4321:2
The one covenant is perpetual in the other, even as the spiritual seed shall rule and bless through the earthly. R4321:2
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| 9 Which he solemnised with Abraham, and his oath, to Isaac; |
Which covenant – The promise of the land was the covenant. HG44:1
His oath – Confirmation of the participation of Isaac and Jacob in the great promise that God made to Abraham. OV73:2
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| 10 And confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel, as a covenant age-abiding; |
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| 11 Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, As your inherited portion; |
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| 12 While as yet they were men easily counted,–A very few, and sojourners therein; |
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| 13 And they wandered from nation to nation, From a kingdom, to another people. |
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| 14 He suffered no son of earth to oppress them, And reproved–for their sakes–[even] kings! |
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| 15 Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong.
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Touch not mine anointed – An assault on one of these would be an attack on the Almighty's arrangements. R5673:2
Though King Saul was the Lord's anointed, we are not to think of the kings of today as the Lord's anointed. They are their own anointed. Their kingdoms are kingdoms of this world. R5673:2
We shall not be injured as New Creatures, no matter what the Lord may permit to come against us according to the flesh. R4219:2
My prophets – Ministers. R4219:2
No harm – Injure your real, highest, interests. R4219:2
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| 16 Then called he a famine over the land, All the staff of bread, he brake; |
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| 17 He sent before them a man, For a slave, was he sold–[even] Joseph; |
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| 18 They forced, into a fetter, his foot, Into the iron, entered his soul; |
Hurt with fetters – With a clear conscience, and a sense of the divine approval, Joseph determined to make the best of that situation also. R1640:2
For very shame's sake, we should strive at least to come up to the standard of Joseph. R3973:4
Egyptian prisons were terrible places, with the prisoners horribly mistreated. R2886:2, R3973:3
He – Nephesh, soul, sentient being. E334
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| 19 Until the time when his word came to pass, Speech of Yahweh, proved him; |
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| 20 The king sent, and set him free, One having dominion over peoples, yet loosed he his bonds; |
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| 21 He appointed him lord to his household, And one having dominion over all he possessed; |
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| 22 That he might bind his rulers as he pleased, And, his elders, he might embue with wisdom. |
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| 23 So Israel came into Egypt, And, Jacob, sojourned in the land of Ham; |
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| 24 And he made his people exceeding fruitful,–And caused them to become stronger than their adversaries. |
Increased his people – Israel's increase was a miracle. HG362:3
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| 25 He let them turn their heart–To hate his people, To deal treacherously with his servants; |
Turned their heart – Injustice inequity iniquity got such a hold upon them. R5271:2
To deal subtilly – The practice of injustice injures both parties the afflicter as seriously as the afflicted. R5271:1
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| 26 He sent Moses his servant, Aaron, whom he had chosen. |
Moses his servant – Who stood in the position of a father to the whole nation. R1725:3
Who acted representatively in bringing the Jews under the Law covenant, as Christ acted representatively in removing it. R1725:4
Thus, as God's representative on the one hand, and Israel's on the other, Moses could be the Mediator of the Law covenant between God and that nation. R5046:6
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| 27 He set among them his threatening signs, And his wonders, in the land of Ham; |
Shewed his signs – The plagues were doubtless a full compensation of justice upon them, equivalent to the injuries which they had practiced. R5271:3
And wonders – The Egyptian plagues were miraculous from one viewpoint; not so from another. R5271:3
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| 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words; |
He sent darkness – Perhaps produced by the dust in the air. R5272:5
Pharaoh considered the sun god of the Egyptians as the powerful one. R5271:5
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| 29 He turned their waters into blood, And so caused their fish to die; |
Waters into blood – Possibly produced by some micro-organisms in the water, the miracle being the ability of Moses and Aaron to effect the change at their command, and to abate it. R5271:6
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| 30 Their land swarmed with frogs, In the chambers of their kings! |
Brought forth frogs – Which Pharaoh's magicians were unable to remove. R5272:1
Psalms 105:31 Divers sorts of flies – Gnats, mosquitoes, house flies and cattle flies. R5272:2
And lice – Dust ticks, probably breeding on the decaying heaps of frogs. R5272:2
In all their coasts – The miracle consisting in producing these ticks in unusual numbers--not merely in the desert wilds, but throughout Egypt. R5272:2
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| 31 He spake, and there came in the gad-fly, Gnats, in all their bounds; |
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| 32 He made their showers–hail, A fire flaming throughout their land; |
Hail for rain – A cyclone. R5272:4
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| 33 And he smote their vines, and their fig-trees, And brake in pieces the trees of their bounds; |
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| 34 He spake–then came the swarming locust,–The devouring locust, and that without number; |
Without number – Immense swarms of locusts that have come upon Egypt from Nubia have covered the ground for miles--sometimes to a depth of 15 inches. R5272:5
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| 35 And devoured all the herbage in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground. |
Eat up all the herbs – Locusts are apt to eat everything that is green before they fly away. R5272:5
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| 36 Then smote he every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength; |
Smote also – The penalty was not so much in the death as in the suddenness of it. R5272:6
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| 37 Thus brought he them forth, with silver and gold, Nor was there, throughout his tribes, one that faltered; |
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| 38 Egypt rejoiced when they went out, For the dread of them had fallen upon them. |
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| 39 He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire, to give light by night, |
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| 40 They asked, and he brought in the quail,–And, with the bread of the heavens, he satisfied them; |
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| 41 He opened the rock, and there gushed forth waters, They flowed along, through parched places, as a river; |
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| 42 For he remembered his holy word, With Abraham his servant. |
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| 43 Thus brought he forth his people with gladness,–With shouts of triumph, his chosen ones; |
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| 44 And gave them, the lands of the nations, And, of the toil of the peoples, took they possession: |
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| 45 In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah. |
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