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Psalms 118:29
O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever, this same merciful favor being the sustaining power in the believers of all the world to this day.
O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever, this same merciful favor being the sustaining power in the believers of all the world to this day.
Verse Psalms 118:29. _O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD_] This is the general doxology or chorus. All join in thanksgiving, and they _end_ as they began: "His mercy endureth for ever." It began at the creat...
O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD ... - The psalm closes, as it began, with an exhortation to praise God. In the beginning of the psalm, it was a general exhortation; here it is an exhortation founded on th...
PSALM 118-119 Psalms 118 Christ the Head of the Corner _ 1. His mercy endureth forever (Psalms 118:1)_ 2. The past experience (Psalms 118:8) 3. Jehovah My Salvation ...
CXVIII. A HYMN FOR FESTAL PROCESSION TO ZION. The old tradition that different parts were appropriated to different voices is right in substance, though the statement of the Targum that in Psalms 118:...
PSALMS 118 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Passover Hosanna-Song. ANALYSIS (See bracketed Headlines let into the Psalm). (P.R.I.) Praise ye Yah! (PART I.INVITATIONS TO PRAISE.) (First in Standing Refrain:...
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD; FOR HE IS GOOD: FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER. The psalm ends as it begun. What we have s...
This Ps. was evidently written for the Temple worship on the occasion of some great festival (Psalms 118:24), when it might be used as a processional hymn. It has been variously referred (_a_) to the...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ HOSANNA! (SAVE US NOW!) PSALMS 118 Jesus said, "Did you not read (this) in the Bible? The *builders threw away a stone. It is now in an important place at the c...
הֹוד֣וּ לַ יהוָ֣ה כִּי ־טֹ֑וב כִּ֖י לְ
Psalms 118:1 THIS is unmistakably a psalm for use in the Temple worship, and probably meant to be sung antiphonally, on some day of national rejoicing (Psalms 118:24). A general concurrence of opinion...
A NEW WAY IN A NEW DAY Psalms 118:15 As we draw near the mellowing light of the sanctuary we see more deeply into the divine meaning of our experiences. In Psalms 118:13, “ _Thou_ [the enemy] didst t...
This is the sixth and last of the Hallel. It is the song of perfect victory, and was undoubtedly arranged to be sung by the triumphal procession as it made its way to the Temple for thanksgiving and w...
PSALM CXVIII. (BEATI IMACULATI.) Of the excellence of virtue, consisting in the love and observance of the commandments of God. _ Iniquity. Hebrew, "lying." Let me not imitate the wicked. (Haydock)...
In the same firm belief with the Psalmist, that this God in Christ is our God in Christ, let us adopt his plan, and end the Psalm, as we began it, in the assurance of his everlasting unchanging love,...
REFLECTIONS SURELY this Psalm opens a most blessed view of Jesus; and it is hardly possible to go over the perusal of it, if the soul be at all awakened to the renewed enjoyment of her Lord, without b...
Psalms 118 is also, though not formally so, rendering praise and thanksgiving as promised, connected with, or rather founded on, the known formula His mercy endureth for ever. The same that in Psalms...
O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR [HE IS] GOOD,.... And thus the psalm ends as it began; there having been given many instances of the divine goodness, in hearing and delivering the psalmist when in di...
O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. Ver. 29. _O give thanks unto the Lord, &c._] _Repetit proaemium pro epilogo._ See Psalms 118:1 ....
_Thou art my God, and I will praise thee_, &c. In these verses the psalmist subjoins his own thankful acknowledgments of divine goodness, in which he calls upon others to join with him, and give thank...
19-29 Those who saw Christ's day at so great a distance, saw cause to praise God for the prospect. The prophecy, ver...
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Psalms 118:29 thanks H3034 (H8685) LORD H3068 good H2896 mercy H2617 forever H5769 Psalm
O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD The Messianic Psalms: Summary. That the Psalms contain a testimony to Christ our Lord Himself affirmed (Luke 24:44) and the New Testament quotations from the Psalter point...
Psalms 118:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever._ Here is a standing reason for thanksgiving. Although we may not always be healthy, nor always prosper...
CONTENTS: Cheerful acknowledgement of God's goodness and dependence upon that goodness for the future. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Never failing streams of mercy flow from our God. The more our hea...
This psalm is destitute of title, and the occasion on which it was composed is not known. The style however, the subject, the masterly manner in which it is treated, and the spirit which pervades the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 118:1. This joyful psalm calls on all of God’s people to praise the Lord for his steadfast love (vv. Psalms 118:1). It then moves to wha
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 118:28 See note on vv. 1–4. ⇐ ⇔...
INTRODUCTION 1. The last of the group (113–118.) constituting the Hallel. 2. Certainly a temple Psalm, most probably composed for a great occasion. “Some incline to the Davidic authorship, when he wa...
EXPOSITION AN antiphonal hymn, composed for a joyful occasion, when there was to be a procession to the temple, a welcoming of the procession by those inside, and the solemn offering of a sacrifice up...
As we get into Psalms 118:1-29, the last of the Hallel psalms. O give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 118:1); Again, the exhortation, praise and thanks, "O give thanks unto the Lord." for he is good: b...
Ezra 3:11; Isaiah 63:7; Psalms 103:17; Psalms 118:1...