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Chapter 111

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1 Hallelujah. 2 I will praise the LORD with all my heart in the assembled congregation of the upright.

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Great are the works of the LORD, to be treasured for all their delights.

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3 Majestic and glorious is your work, your wise design endures forever.

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You won renown for your wondrous deeds; gracious and merciful is the LORD.

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4 You gave food to those who fear you, mindful of your covenant forever.

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5 You showed powerful deeds to your people, giving them the lands of the nations.

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The works of your hands are right and true, reliable all your decrees,

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Established forever and ever, to be observed with loyalty and care.

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You sent deliverance to your people, ratified your covenant forever; holy and awesome is your name.

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6 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; prudent are all who live by it. Your praise endures forever.

 

 



1 [Psalm 111] A temple singer (⇒ Psalm 111:1) tells how God is revealed in Israel's history (⇒ Psalm 111:2-10). The deeds reveal God's very self, powerful, merciful, faithful. The poem is an acrostic, each verse beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.



2 [1] In the assembled congregation of the upright: in the temple. Cf ⇒ Psalm 149:1.



3 [3] Your: the psalm refers to God in the third person throughout; the shift to the second person is for the sake of inclusive language.



4 [5] Food to those who fear you: probably a reference to the manna in the desert, which elsewhere is seen as a type of the Eucharist. Cf ⇒ John 6:31-33, ⇒ 49-51.



5 [6] Lands: literally, "inheritance, heritage."



6 [10] The fear of the LORD: reverence for God, the Hebrew term for religion.





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