Hope to the Despair

Title: Hope for the Despair
Preacher: Dr Tan Hock Seng
Date: 10 December 2023

Psalm 99 calls God’s people who were down and discouraged to resume worshipping Yahweh.

2 Great is the LORD in Zion;
He is exalted over all the nations and their peoples.
3 Let them praise Your great and awes-inspiring Name
— He is Holy.

The people reacted:
How can we worship without the temple?
At that time, the People had no Temple.
Sacrifices had stopped.
They had not been celebrating any religious feast,
like the Passover and Pentecost for decades.
The temple choir had been disbanded.
Then, the people were living as Exiles in Babylon.

Psalm 137 reflects the people’s feelings and mood in Babylon.

By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.
2 On the willows in her midst we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors ask us to compose songs;
those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying:
"Sing for us a song about Zion!"
4 How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign land? [Psalm 137:1-4]

As the people missed their homeland deeply,
they constantly cried to God,

3 Restore us, O God;
make your face shine upon us,
that we may be delivered.
4 O LORD God Almighty,
how long will your anger smolder
against the prayers of your people?
5b You have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
6 You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations.
and our enemies mock us.
7 Restore us, O God Almighty;
make your face shine upon us,
that we may be delivered. [Psalm 80:3-7 ].

Responding to the people’s reaction the psalmist exhorted them,

“Yes, you can still worship God without a temple.

5 Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his footstool; He is Holy.

The Jerusalem temple had been a footstool for God.
Now, the temple was destroyed,
the LORD still has a footstool – the whole Earth.

“The Earth as His footstool,” is a much larger one than the temple.

In Isaiah God expresses His displeasure against the people’s attitudes and ways of worship,

"Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that? [NLT Isaiah 66:1]

The Psalmist encouraged the people:
“We can still worship God without the temple.”
“We can worship the LORD in Babylon, or any place.”

The peoples retorted:
We have no mood to worship.
How can we be happy when we have no king?

The psalmist corrected the people “No, you still have a King.”
“God is your King!”

Yahweh is King – The LORD reigns

1The LORD reigns … [Psalm 99:1b ].
2 The LORD is elevated in Zion;
He is exalted over all the nations [Psalm 99:2 ].

People’s Reaction:
Nonsense! How could Yahweh be King?

Everyone is saying “Yahweh was defeated
when Babylon conquered Judah.”
Our beautiful temple was burned, and Jerusalem, destroyed.
The Babylonians mocked us, “Yahweh could not even save you.”
“Our god “Marduk is greater than Yahweh”
Yahweh does not reign anymore; Marduk reigns.
So, you should say “Let all the peoples tremble before Marduk.”

The Psalmist strongly refuted such mockery in Psalms 95 & 97:

For the LORD is a great God …
who is superior to all gods [NET Psalm 95:3].
All the gods bow down before Him [NET Psalm 97:7].
For you, O LORD, … You are exalted far above all gods [Psalm 97:9 ].

All the gods bow down before Him [NET Psalm 97:7c].

At this point, you might wonder how I gathered the background information of Psalm 99.

First, I observed that Psalm 99 belongs to
the collection of Psalms in Book IV.

A.The Psalter is collated into five books:

Book I Psalm 3 – 41
Book II Psalm 42 – 72
Book III Psalm 73 – 89
Book IV Psalm 90 – 106
Book V Psalm 107 – 150

Since the Book I begins with Psalm 3,

Q: Where do Psalm 1 & Psalm 2 fit in?

Psalm 1 & Psalm 2 are the introductions to the five books.

Psalm 1 Introduces the overarching theology of the Psalter –
“Blessed is the person who walks in the way of the LORD...”

“His delight is in the Torah of the LORD;
and on His Torah He meditates day and night [Psalm 1:2]

Psalm 2 Anticipates the future when God exalts the Messiah as the King over all the nations.

The LORD said to me [the Messiah],
"You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession [Psalm 2:7b-8].

However, in the English Bibles, Psalms 1 & 2 are included within the Book 1 collection.

Second, I read about the historical setting associated with Book IV.

Each of the Five Books was compiled within a specific time-setting:

Book I Psalm 3 – 41 (Pre-Exilic compilation)
Book II Psalm 42 – 72 ((Pre-Exilic compilation)
Book III Psalm 73 – 89 (Exilic compilation)
Book IV Psalm 90 – 106 (Exilic compilation)
Book V Psalm 107 – 150 (Exilic & Post-Exilic Compilation)

The Psalms in Book 1 through Book II were compiled
during the Pre-Exile period [before the Fall of Jerusalem].

Book III & Book IV, during the Exile;
and Book V, towards the end of , and after, the Exile period.

Just before the first Psalm of each album, you will find the information – which are the Psalms in this album. You should find the information whether you are using a printed Bible or eBible.

The first Psalm of each book are:
Psalm 1; Psalm 41; Psalm 73; Psalm 90; and Psalm 107

Book IV contains 17 Psalms; and among which is Psalm 99.
Some of the Psalms were composed before the Fall.

For example, David composed Psalm 101 & Psalm 103
a long time ago before Jerusalem fell,
but David’s compositions were compiled in Book IV
to comfort and strengthen the discouraged people living in Exile.

I recommend two text-books that can help you understand the five books of the Psalms:
How to Read & Understand the Psalms, and How to Read the Psalms
The first title was published in June 2023.It is more detailed and has more insights.

Psalms 96-99 are the focus of Book IV,
These four Psalms amplify the theme, “The LORD Reigns.”
As these Psalms also share the same social backgrounds,
in my study, I correlate the contents of Psalm 99 with that
of other three Psalms to see a larger picture
and to gain a fuller understanding.

The four Psalms respond to the people’s crying in Psalm 94:2–3:

Rise, O Judge-of-the-Earth
turn back on the arrogant what they deserve.
How long will the wicked—O Yahweh—
how long will the wicked celebrate? [Psalm 94:2-3]

Thus, these Psalms assure the people that
Yahweh is the Judge-of-the-Earth;
Yahweh is still reigning; and
Yahweh is coming to judge the world with equity [96:10, 13; 98:9].

Book IV of the Psalter exhorts the worshippers to live by faith – because the Lord reigns in every life-situation.
Within the Exile community, there were worshippers
who kept on trusting God, despites their hardships and sufferings.

The Psalmist was one of them.

He urged the people,

“Let’s not give up on God;
Yahweh is our only hope;
Let’s cling on to Him.”

Thus, Psalm 99 is a song of faith; it gives hope to the despair.
It calls the people to worship Yahweh as the King,
despites all the contradictory evidence pointing the opposite direction.

In Book IV, we have a series of Psalms that proclaim God as King:

Psalm 93:1, “The LORD reigns”;
Psalm 95:3, “The LORD reigns”;
Psalm 96:10, “The LORD reigns”;
Psalm 97:1, “The LORD reigns”;
Psalm 98:5–6, “The LORD reigns”;
Psalm 99:1, “The LORD reigns.”

Hence, we also read of the proclamation of Yahweh as King in Psalm 99.

Psalm 99 can be outlined in three parts:

A. The LORD is King — He is Holy [vv. 1-3].
B. Call out to the LORD — He is Holy [vv.5-8a].
C. The LORD will reign in Justice — He is Holy [vv. 4, 8b-9].

A. The LORD is King — He is Holy [vv. 1-3].

1. Yahweh has always been the King of Israel,
even before Saul became her first king.

Yahweh is King by virtue that He is the Creator of the Earth.

Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed,
even from age to age, You are God [LXE Psalm 90:2].

2. Yahweh also reigns as King over the nations,
whether the peoples acknowledged Him, or not.
“He is exalted over all the nations” [Psalm 99:2b]

3. Yahweh will reign the whole world in future.
The Psalms in Book IV anticipate the coming of Yahweh.
Yahweh is coming to judge the world:
He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth [Psalm 95:13].

The nations will fear the name of the LORD,
all the kings of the earth will revere your glory [NIV Psalm 102:15].

1 The LORD reigns,
let the peoples tremble;
He sits enthroned between the cherubim,
let the earth quake.

Verse 1 contains two memory-flashes about God’s self-revelation.
The first memory-flash recalls God’s revelation at Mt Sinai;
the second recalls God’s revelation in Babylon, by the Kebar River.

God can manifest Himself in many ways,
and in different forms and styles.

To Moses, Yahweh revealed Himself in a burning bush.
The revelation was mysterious to Moses, but not scary.

To the people who were used to fear human kings, like the Pharaoh, much more than God,

Yahweh appeared in an awesome, but terrifying manner.
There were lightning, thunder, and mountain-quake;
and the people trembled in fear.

16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning,
with a thick cloud over the mountain …. Everyone in the camp trembled.
17 Then Moses led the people out … and they stood at the foot
of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke,
because the LORD descended on it in fire.
The … whole mountain trembled violently [Exodus 19:16-18 ]

Ezekiel chapter 1 shows us a glimpse of the Yahweh’s appearance in Babylon.. In his vision Ezekiel saw
the LORD enthroned above four heavenly creatures – the Cherubim.

4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm … an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light… 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures [the Cherubim].
26 Above the expanse over their heads was … a throne of sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like… a man.
27 … and brilliant light surrounded Him. 28 …
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD [Ezekiel 1:4 – 28].

Thus, the Psalmist expressed in verse 1:

1 The LORD reigns,
let the peoples tremble [this alludes to the Mt Sinai revelation];
He sits enthroned between the cherubim [the Babylon revelation],
let the earth quake.

B. Call out to Him — He is Holy [vv.5-8a].

The people did not know how to continue their worship in Babylon.
They used to go to the temple to offering sacrifice.
Now the Temple is gone, they felt completely lost.

What could they do?

The Psalmist encourages the people to pray.
The people wondered,
But how could we pray without the temple?

6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
Samuel was among those who prayed to Him;
they called on the LORD
and He answered them.

In verse 6 the psalmist cites Moses and Aaron’s examples
of praying without being in the temple.
Moses and Aaron were praying to the LORD
even before there was any temple.

Jerusalem and the Holy Land had not existed yet.
The Temple was regarded as a Holy Place for Worship,
but Moses and Aaron were worshipping God in the wilderness.
The wilderness was regarded as an unclean place – unholy.

Moreover, Moses and Aaron had to pray inside a make-shift tent,
in the wilderness, called the Tabernacle.

Yet without the temple, and without being in the Holy Land,
God could still speak to Moses & Aaron.

7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud
[The pillar of cloud stood above the Holy of Holies section of the Tabernacle];
You answered them;

We see that Moses and Aaron’s relationship with God was not dependent on the temple or the Holy Land.
Their relationship was based on their obedience to God –
following Yahweh’s statues and the Decrees in the Torah.

What’s much more important is that God heard their praying;
and that they could experience very close communion with the LORD.

People’s Reacted:

BUT we are not priests like Moses or Aaron;
how could we approach God?

Samuel was not a priest, either.
Only Levites who are descended from Aaron’s line can be priests.
But Samuel was not Aaron’s descendant, or even a Levite.
He was from the tribe of Ephraim [1 Samuel 1:1-2]

You ask, “How, then, could Samuel serve God just as a priest did?
God had made provision for those who are not Levites
to serve Him at the Tabernacle/ Temple.

That provision was for an ordinary Israelite
to become a Nazirite [Numbers 6:5-8].

We read that Hannah dedicated Samuel as a baby to the LORD
27 I prayed for this boy, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him. 28 Now I dedicate him to the LORD. From this time on he is dedicated to the LORD." Then they worshiped the LORD there [1 Samuel 1:27-28 ].

Samuel was probably dedicated to Yahweh as a Nazirite.

Samuel served God as a priest,
and later he also became a prophet and a king-maker in Israel.

Samuel was among those who prayed to Him [Psalm 99:6b];

Some faithful people heeded the Psalmist’s advice.
During the inter-testament period
they learned to worship God in the Synagogue, without the Temple.

The Psalmists explained why the Exile happened.
The Exile happened not because Yahweh was defeated by Marduk,
But because of Israel’s unfaithfulness. They worshipped pagan gods.

If the people wants to be restored back to God,
they must turn back to God, repent, and seek His forgiveness.

The Psalmist assures the people that God will surely forgive them if they turn to Him in prayer:

8 O LORD our God,
You answered them [their prayer for the people];
You were a forgiving God to them [the people],
but also One who punished their evil deeds.

C. The LORD will reign in Justice — He is Holy [vv. 4, 8b-9].

4 The King is mighty,
He loves justice –
You have established equity;
You have done what is Just and Right throughout
Israel.

The psalmist declares that the Yahweh, the King loves Justice.
The NIV translates justice and righteousness into an action:
“You will make things right”

Yes, the Just God will right the wrongs
and vindicate those who suffered injustices.

Q: What wrongs & injustice had the people been suffering?

Psalm 94 informs us that the people suffered much violence, cruelty & oppression as conquered people in Babylon.

3 O LORD, …how long will the wicked celebrate?
4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
5 O LORD, they crush your people;
they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless.
7 Then they say, "The LORD does not see this… [Psalm 94:2-7]

20 Cruel rulers are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws.
21 They conspire against the blameless,
and condemn to death the innocent. [Psalm 94:20-21].

Because the God loves Justice, He will make things right.

15 For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated [Psalm 94:15 ].

22 But the LORD will protect me …
23 He will pay them back for their sin.
He will destroy them because of their evil;
the LORD our God will destroy them. [Psalm 94:22-23].

Applications

A. God is Holy [Holiness is God’s nature]

The statement “God is Holy” is proclaimed three times in Psalm 99.
The Psalmist reminds the people that
the Holy God had called them to be Holy like Him,
that is, to live Holy lives.

“Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy” [NIV Leviticus 19:1 ].

Q: What does it mean “To be Holy, as God is”?
A: “To be Holy” does not mean becoming a person
who is hard to get along with, or people who cannot have fun.

Being Holy is to be God-like in the ways we treat people and how relate to them.

Q: What is God like, then?
A: Exodus 34:6-7 gives us a glimpse of what the Holy God is like.

One day Moses asked God to show him His glory.
God warned Moses that no mortal could see Him and survive.
Nevertheless, God granted Moses’ request.
He instructed Moses to stand on a rock.

As His glorious presence was passing by,
God hid Moses in the cleft of the rock
and covered him with His Hand,
until His Glory had passed [Exodus 33:18-23].
Moses only saw the back of God, but not His face.
The “back of God” denotes God’s lesser glory,
Which Moses could see, not die, yet stay alive.

Moses did not just encounter the brilliance God’s glory, he also felt “something” of God’s glory,

God expressed that “something about His glory with these words:

“Yahweh, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
7 maintaining love to thousands,
and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;
NIV Exodus 34:6-7

God had described the affective aspect of His glory to us.

When you reflect on who God is –
Compassionate, Gracious, Slow to anger, Loving, and Faithful,
Do you see a God who is difficult to get along with?

Jesus was like His Father in the ways He related to all sorts of people.
Jesus was Compassionate, Gracious, Loving, Forgiving, and Faithful.
That’s why little children were not afraid to approach Jesus,
and even sinners felt comfortable to eat, drink, and talk with Him
Jesus reflected the beauty of God’s holiness in His speech and conduct.
Thus, Jesus is our example of, “To be Holy, as God is Holy.

When God created us in His image, we were supposed to reflect His “glory,”
The glory which He had revealed to Moses [Exodus 34:6-7].

But we sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.

“ All have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God” [Roman3:23]

We have a good news. The Gospel tells us in our union with Christ,
we shall be restored to God’s glory.

18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image
from one degree of glory to another,
which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit [2 Corinthians 3:18 ].

This concept to be like God is actually not new to you.
You probably learned it a long time ago.
You are more familiar with the term “Christ-likeness.”
“Be Holy” is the same as “Growing in Christ-likeness”; and bearing the “fruit of the Spirit”

B. God Loves Justice

4 The King is mighty, He loves justice –

In Exodus 34 the LORD also revealed to Moses that He is a Just God.

Q: where do we see the word “Justice” among the list of God’s attributes?

“Yahweh, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
7 maintaining love to thousands,
and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished [Exodus 34:6-7]

We do not find the word “Just” there.
However, God’s statement “He does not leave the guilty unpunished”
Expresses His justice without using that very word, “Justice”.

Many Christians are able to demonstrate their love, trust and obedience to God without telling God,
“I love you”; “I trust you”; “I will obey you”.
As we all know the proverb – Actions speak louder than words,
they just live out their love, trust and obedience to God by actions.

Similarly, the God’s action “I will not leave the guilty unpunished” expresses His commitment to uphold Justice and Righteousness.

That is why Psalm 99:8 says,

You were a forgiving God to the people,
but also One who punished their evil deeds [the Psalm 99:8b].

You might react, “Forgiveness and Punishment” don’t go together”.
How could God be forgiving, yet judging?

Yes, God is forgiving of wickedness, rebellion and sin.

But, when people choose to reject God’s forgiveness,
and to rebel against God perpetually, refusing to repent,

God, sadly, will have to execute His judgment in His Righteousness.
Thus, God’s forgiveness and judgment are not mutually exclusive.

Today the understanding of the Judgment of God has evolved.

Formerly, people understood the “Judgment of God”
as God is the One who judges people.
Today, the “Judgment of God” has changed to mean
“People are the ones judging God.”

Many people, even Christians, judge God to be a moral monster,

when they read the stories about Noah’s Flood
and about God’s of Destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah by fire.
When they read about the Canaan conquest in the book of Joshua, they also accused God of carrying out Canaanite Genocide.

Thus, the “Judgment of God” has become
“We are the ones who judge God”.

One elderly Christian lady had a friend who sees God as cruel.
One day she asked her friend,
“What do you think of a person, who uses a knife and cut you up?”
The friend immediately replied,
“That person is obviously a dangerous psycho, a heartless killer”.
Then the lady asked, “What if that person is a surgeon; and
he is using a knife to cut you, in order to save your life?”

You see, we need to grasp the whole picture of what God is doing in Human History before passing judgment on God.
We should not look at just one part, and then condemn God as a “moral monster”.

God executes judgment to save the world from evil.
When God judges, He is making things right for us.

There are two things to remember when we see God’s Justice in action:
No one is Holy as God is; and
God is-Giver; He has the Sovereign rights to take away lives.

[1] No one is Holy, as God is.

Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord; no deeds can compare with yours [Psalm 86:8].

When we forget that God is Holy.
We might think that we are more righteous than God;
We will see ourselves as more compassionate;
and more loving, and even wiser, than God.

But there is no one like God.
We must accept God for Who He is – Who He revealed Himself to be.
One who punishes evil people in His Holiness.

[2] God is the Giver of Life; He has the right to take away lives.

Hannah, the mother of Samuel, knew God as both as the Life-Taker and the Life-Giver.

6 The LORD brings death and makes alive;
he brings down to the grave and raises up. [1 Samuel 2: 6]

God has the Sovereign right to take away life as the Life-Giver.
He is able to create life from non-life.
We are alive life because the Creator-God gives us life.

I can take away a person’s life,
but I can’t make the person I killed to come back to life.

God can!
God gives life; He could take away life, and give life again.
Jesus had raised many dead;
and one day Jesus will return to resurrect all who died.

Psalm 99: 4 assures us that God Our King will make things right,

4b He loves justice –

In the Israel-Hamas war, you might be asking,
“Does God know how bad the crisis is becoming?”
Why is God silent?
Why is He not doing anything to stop the fighting?
Can God hear the cries of many people
who had lost their homes and their loved ones?
Does God pay attention to the prayers of many peoples
around the world for peace?

God’s answer would be, “I have seen everything clearly”;
“I have heard the people crying”;
and “I will make things right”

That is what God told Moses in the” burning bush” revelation.

The LORD said to him:,
"I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt.
I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and
I am concerned about their suffering.
8 I have come down to deliver them …[NET Exodus 3:7-8a ]

In Bible History, God not only cared about the Israelites,
He also cared for the peoples of other nations.
He cared for the people who did not know Him.
He cared for those who did not worship Him, or had rejected Him.
In the book of Amos [chapters 1:3-2:3], before He pronounced judgment against Israel,
God indicted the sins of the nations surrounding Israel:
Tyre [1:9-10]; Gaza [1:6-8]; Damascus [1:3-5];
Ammon [1:13-15]; Moab [2:1-3]; and Edom [1:11-12].

When the nations fought against one another, many innocents will suffer.
God saw clearly the atrocities and war crimes that each nation had committed.
So, the Just God pronounced judgment on those nations,
according to the evil they did.

Perhaps, they peoples of the nations might have protested,
“Stay out of our lives, Yahweh!”
“You are not our god”. “What we do is none of your business.”

Should they protest, God would have responded,
“I judge you because I am your Creator”; “I loved justice”.

God’s justice did not stop at judging peoples, He also promised to restore the nations after punishing them.

You may read of God’s promise of resotration to the nations after His judgment in Jeremiah 46-49.

Q: What about Israel?
Will God judge His people if they have committed similar atrocities?
Yes! God is impartial.
He will also judge Israel in His justice.
If Israel is guilty of the alleged war crimes: the genocide, the massacre,
and the collective punishment of the Palestinians,
God will punish Israel and bring Justice to the sufferers.

In the OT, God did not spare David, whom He loved dearly,
when David murdered Uriah to cover up his adultery.

Uriah was not a Israelite; he was a Hittite [an equivalent to a Palestinian].
Perhaps, to David, killing a Hittite was like killing an ant.
But even the life of a lowly Hittite, to God, was valuable as valuable as king David’s.

Thus, God punished David severely
to vindicate Uriah’s wrongful death [2 Samuel 12:7-14].

In the Israel-Hamas war, people who read and follow the news may not know clearly who’s right and who’s wrong.
Truth has been severely distorted because of the widespread of disinformation and misinformation.
But God knows the whole Truth. He sees everything clearly.

God knows the traumas and the shattered dreams of the innocents.
He hears their cries of anguish.
God is concerned about their sufferings.
He will act to bring Justice.

Thus, we should not show partially in the Israel-Hamas war.
Instead of taking side with your friends
who deeply sympathizes with the Palestinians,
or with pro-Zionist Christians,

We should pray for God’s justice to punish all the evil doers.
We should pray people to know and accept the whole truth,
so that there will be true justice and lasting peace
to both the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Conclusion:

Psalm 99 reminds us that

A. The LORD is King — He is Holy [vv. 1-3].
He reigns in every life-situations.

The Psalm exhorts us, especially when we very discourage, to

B. Call out to Him — He is Holy [vv.5-8a].

The Psalm assures us that

C. The LORD is Coming to Reign in Justice — He is Holy [vv. 4, 8b-9].
Our trust in the LORD who reigns is our hope in our despair.

As I end this message,

I will read Psalm 46:7-11 as a prayer.

Let us pray:

The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
8 Come and see the works of the LORD,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.

9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
He burns the shields with fire.

10 "Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."
11 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

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