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Verse Psalms 118:5. _I CALLED UPON THE LORD_] I am a standing proof
and living witness of God's mercy. Take encouragement from me....
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I CALLED UPON THE LORD IN DISTRESS - Margin, as in Hebrew, “out of
distress.” In the very midst of trouble he called upon the Lord; his
voice was heard, as it were, coming from the depth of his sorrow...
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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 ...
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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:...
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THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4.
AND SET ME IN. LARGE PLACE. The current Hebrew text. with the
deliverance of JAH, _bammerhab yah_ (two words). The Massoretic text
reads it as one word, _bammerhabyah_. wi...
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THE LORD ANSWERED ME, AND SET ME IN A LARGE PLACE,— _The Lord
answered me with enlargement._ Mudge....
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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:...
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I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me
in a large place.
-At the beginning () and at the close of this division (Psalms
118:13) the salvation already received is descr...
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IN DISTRESS] lit. 'in a strait place.' THE LORD] RM 'Heb. _Jah,_' a
contraction of Jehovah....
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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...
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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...
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I CALLED. — Better, _out of the straitness I cried to Jah; answered
me, with freedom, Jah._ The meaning of the last clause (literally,
_with room._ Comp.: “Ay, marry, now my soul has elbow-room” —
_Ki...
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מִֽן ־הַ֭ מֵּצַ֥ר קָרָ֣אתִי יָּ֑הּ
עָנָ֖נִי ב
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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...
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TRUST IN GOD BRINGS STRENGTH
Psalms 118:1
It is generally agreed that this psalm dates back to the restoration
from Babylon. It was probably used as a processional hymn for the
first time at the grea...
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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...
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I called upon the LORD in (b) distress: the LORD answered me, [and set
me] in a large place.
(b) We are here taught that the more that troubles oppress us, the
more ought we to be instant in prayer....
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_O! that. Conscious of his own insufficiently, he prays for grace to
be justified. (Worthington) --- Moses acknowledged, that man could not
observe the law, without Christ, Deuteronomy xxx 11., and Ro...
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It is impossible to overlook Jesus in this verse. Surely to none so
applicable as to him are these expressions; and to none can we refer
them with equal propriety. Who had so large a place, or such fr...
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5_I called upon God in my distress. _We have here a particular
application of the doctrine we formerly mentioned, to the person of
David; with which also is conjoined the rejoicing of the whole Church...
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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...
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I CALLED UPON THE LORD IN DISTRESS,.... Or "out of that strait" q;
when David was encompassed by Saul and his men, or when at the court
of Achish, or when his own people talked of stoning him. As this...
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I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me]
in a large place.
Ver. 5. _I called upon the Lord in distress_] Heb. out of distress,
_q.d._ I celebrate not God's mercy of cour...
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_I called upon the Lord in distress_ As if he had said, You may see an
example of the divine mercy in me, who was in grievous straits and
dangers, but, imploring God's protection and help, he _answere...
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A PSALM FOR FESTIVAL SERVICES.
This hymn, written altogether in the style of David, bears a
liturgical character and was, in fact, used in the Jewish Church upon
the occasion of the great festivals, a...
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I called upon the Lord in distress, when he was in straits, in such
difficulties that he could turn neither to the right nor to the left;
THE LORD ANSWERED ME AND SET ME IN A LARGE PLACE, where he had...
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IN DISTRESS:
_ Heb._ out of distress...
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1-18 The account the psalmist here gives of his troubles is very
applicable to Christ: many hated him without a cause; nay, the Lord
himself chastened him sorely, bruised him, and put him to grief, t...
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SET ME; which verb is tacitly included in the former, and is easily
understood out of PSALMS 31:8, where the full phrase is expressed, and
from the following word. See the like examples in the Hebrew...
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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...
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May the Good Spirit, who taught the psalmist to indite these words
help us to feel their inward meaning!
Psalms 118:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because
his mercy endureth for eve...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord. .. set me in a large place._
GOD THE DELIVERER AND DEFENDER OF HIS PEOPLE
I. The deliverer (verse 5).
1. The deliverance seems to have consisted in raising him from a
circumscribed to an...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 30:6; Genesis 32:7; Genesis 32:9; Mark 14:31; Psalms 107:13