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| 1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. |
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| 2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. |
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| 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. |
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| 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. |
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 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: |
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| 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: |
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| 7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: |
Looseth the prisoners – Setting free the prisoners of sin and death. OV387:5; A112
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| 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: |
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| 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
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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 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD. |
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