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| To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. |
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| 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
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| 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
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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 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
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| 4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
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| 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
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| 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. |
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 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
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| 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. |
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| 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. |
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| 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. |
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| 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
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