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| =Overview=
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| =Background ideas=
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| * YHWH created everything
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| * The waters, having been created first, needed to be subdued from their chaotic threat
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| * After doing so, YHWH is considered victorious and rightly to be enthroned
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| * Mount Zion represents both the centre of creation and the temple-city of YHWH's special presence
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| * The temple/Ark presence involved 'military' language even in worship and sacrifice
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| * The requirements to meet with YHWH include purity, integrity and honesty
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| =Background situation=
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| =Expanded paraphrase=
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| {{Story Behind}}
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| ==v.1==
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| '''By David, a psalm.''' <span style="color:#808080">(Since YHWH created everything)</span> '''The earth and its fullness belong to YHWH, the world and the inhabitants in it,''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(so he has authority over all of it)</span>''','''
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| ==v.2==
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| '''because'''<span style="color:#414BB2">(, although the waters existed before the dry land),</span> <span style="color:#2D9BF0">(and there was a time when the watery chaos seemed to reign)</span>''', he founded it upon seas and established it upon oceans,''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(and establishing his authority over creation)</span> <span style="color:#808080">(and both creating calm and stability for the earth and its inhabitants to flourish)</span>
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| ==v.3==
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| <span style="color:#808080">(and creating the conditions of stability to establish his special presence on a mountain. That is, Mount Zion),</span> <span style="color:#2D9BF0">(the city-temple),</span> <span style="color:#808080">(the centre of the inhabited world),</span> <span style="color:#414BB2">(which belongs to YHWH, who has authority over all creation. As a mighty warrior and as YHWH of armies, he is due right worship, which means not everyone can enter his presence on this mountain, only those whom he has elected and who seek him rightly. So,)</span> '''Who may go up on the mountain of YHWH? And who may stand within his holy place?'''
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| ==v.4==
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| <span style="color:#414BB2">(The answer: Only)</span> '''One with clean hands and a pure heart, who hasn't taken delight in falsehood, nor taken an oath deceitfully.''' <span style="color:#808080">(Some think that the person who offers sacrifices and participates in processions is the one who can enter YHWH's holy place, but YHWH doesn't need sacrifices to satisfy and appease him, since everything is his. So, without inner-outer and interpersonal holiness, procession and sacrifice are meaningless.)</span>
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| ==v.5==
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| <span style="color:#414BB2">(On the other hand, as for the person who rightly seeks YHWH -)</span> '''He will receive blessing from YHWH and justice from the God of his salvation''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(- that is, permission to enter YHWH's presence)</span> <span style="color:#808080">(after fulfilling the expectations of entry)</span>'''.'''
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| ==v.6==
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| <span style="color:#414BB2">(Those without these attributes should not enter his presence, but those who rightly seek him, identified as the generation of Jacob, may.)</span> <span style="color:#2D9BF0">(Just like Jacob, whom YHWH loved and chose for himself from before birth, though being the younger brother, so will this group who seek him. And, just like Jacob, who received YHWH's faithful covenant promises, even when he was not faithful, so will they.)</span> '''Such'''<span style="color:#414BB2">(, that is, being able to enter YHWH's presence,)</span> '''is the generation - those seeking him, those who seek your face - of Jacob. Selah.'''
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| ==v.7==
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| <span style="color:#414BB2">(So prepare to meet him, those approaching him in right worship as creator, the mighty warrior, YHWH of armies).</span> <span style="color:#808080">(He is like a returning victor from battle entering his capital city, so)</span> '''Lift up your heads''' <span style="color:#808080">(in expectation and hope)</span>''', gates,''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(you who seek YHWH's face),</span> '''and be lifted up''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(to open and welcome him),</span>''' eternal doorways, so that the glorious king might enter''' <span style="color:#808080">(to be enthroned, victorious, over his cosmic temple),</span> <span style="color:#2D9BF0">(and honoured by his people)</span>'''! '''
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| ==v.8==
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| '''Who is this glorious king?''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(The one who subjected the waters at creation),</span> '''YHWH,''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(has shown himself to be)</span> '''a mighty one and a warrior,''' <span style="color:#808080">(enthroned between the cherubim)</span> (and assuming his rest in the cosmic temple after establishing order in the cosmos)</span>'''. YHWH is a battle warrior,''' <span style="color:#808080">(whose special presence is manifested by the Ark) (having returned from battle)</span>'''. '''
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| ==v.9==
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| '''Lift up your heads, gates''' <span style="color:#808080">(of creation),</span> <span style="color:#414BB2">(indeed, of all his created subjects),</span> '''and lift up''' <span style="color:#414BB2">(to open and),</span> '''eternal doorways, so that the glorious king might enter!'''
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| ==v.10==
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| '''Who is this glorious king? YHWH of armies,''' <span style="color:#2D9BF0">(evident in the created stars and his heavenly army),</span> '''He is the glorious king'''<span style="color:#808080">, (to whom belongs worship of the whole world).</span> '''Selah.'''
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