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| 1 [[To the Chief Musician. For the Sons of Korah, on Alamoth. A Song.]] God–for us, is a refuge and strength, A help in distresses, soon found. |
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| 2 For this cause, will we not fear, Though the earth showeth change, Or the mountains slip into the heart of the seas: |
Mountains – Kingdoms
Into the midst of the sea – The ungovernable masses. Brother Russell looked at this text (in Dec. 1885) and at the policies of the Russian Czar and concluded that they would be swept away by revolution."The policy of Russia, for instance, is to concede nothing to the people, but to retain all its oppressive power intact. It will not melt; therefore it shall be forcibly carried in the tumult of revolution "into the midst of the sea." The sea in symbolic language represents the masses of the people unrestrained by law and order; hence the carrying of a mountain into the midst of the sea, would signify the overwhelming of a government in a revolutionary uprising of the masses." R815 |
| 3 The waters thereof roar and foam, The mountains tremble with the swelling thereof [Selah.] |
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| 4 A river! whose channels, shall gladden the city of God, The Most High, hath hallowed his habitation. |
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| 5 God, is in the midst of her, she shall not be shaken, God will help her, by the turnings of the morning. |
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| 6 Nations have roared, Kingdoms have tottered, He hath uttered his voice, Earth melteth. |
The kingdoms were moved – Here God is giving us the key that mountains represent kingdoms. In verse 2 it was the mountains that were shaken (moved), here it is the kingdoms. See HGL427:2. |
| 7 Yahweh of hosts, is with us, A high tower for us, is the God of Jacob. [Selah.] |
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| 8 Come! view the doings of Yahweh,–Who hath set desolations in the earth; |
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| 9 Causing wars to cease unto the end of the earth,–The bow, he shivereth, And breaketh in pieces the spear, war-chariots, burneth he up with fire. |
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| 10 Let be! and know that, I, am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. |
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| 11 Yahweh of hosts, is with us, A high tower for us, is the God of Jacob. [Selah.] |
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