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Psalm 118 Berean Standard Bible

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1 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever. 2 Let Israel say, “His loving devotion endures forever.” 3 Let the house of Aaron say, “His loving devotion endures forever.” 4 Let those who fear the LORD say, “His loving devotion endures forever.” 5 In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free. 6 The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? 7 The LORD is on my side; He is my helper. Therefore I will look in triumph on those who hate me. 8 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. 9 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes. 10 All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off. 11 They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off. 12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off. 13 I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me. 14 The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. 15 Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor! 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!” 17 I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done. 18 The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD. 20 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. 21 I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation. 22 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 23 This is from the LORD, and it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 O LORD, save us, we pray. We beseech You, O LORD, cause us to prosper! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you. 27 The LORD is God; He has made His light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You. 29 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

Cross references (29)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Chronicles 16:34; Psalm 107:1; Psalm 106:1; Jeremiah 33:11; Psalm 118:29
  2. 2 Psalm 115:9–11; Psalm 145:10; Psalm 135:19–20; Psalm 147:19–20; 1 Peter 2:9–10
  3. 3 Psalm 134:1–3; Revelation 5:8–10; Revelation 4:7–11; Revelation 1:6; 1 Peter 2:5
  4. 4 Psalm 22:23; Revelation 19:5
  5. 5 Psalm 18:19; Psalm 18:6; Psalm 120:1; Psalm 107:19; Psalm 130:1–2
  6. 6 Hebrews 13:6; Romans 8:31; Psalm 56:4; Psalm 56:11; Micah 7:8–10
  7. 7 Psalm 59:10; Psalm 54:4; Psalm 54:7; Psalm 55:18; Psalm 92:11
  8. 8 Psalm 40:4; Jeremiah 17:5–7; Psalm 62:8–9; Micah 7:5–7
  9. 9 Psalm 146:3–5; Ezekiel 29:7; Isaiah 31:1; Isaiah 30:2–3; Isaiah 31:8
  10. 10 Psalm 88:17; Revelation 20:8–9; Psalm 18:40; 2 Samuel 10:1–19; Zechariah 14:1–3
  11. 11 Psalm 88:17; Psalm 22:12–16; 1 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 19:10
  12. 12 Deuteronomy 1:44; 1 Samuel 17:45; Psalm 20:5; Ecclesiastes 7:6; Psalm 20:1
  13. 13 Psalm 140:4; Psalm 86:17; Micah 7:8; Psalm 18:17–18; Matthew 4:1–11
  14. 14 Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 27:1; Exodus 15:2–6; Matthew 1:21–23
  15. 15 Psalm 89:13; Acts 2:46–47; Psalm 60:12; Psalm 98:1; Exodus 15:6
  16. 16 Exodus 15:6; Acts 2:32–36
  17. 17 John 11:4; Psalm 71:17–18; Isaiah 38:16–20; Psalm 6:5; Psalm 73:28
  18. 18 1 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Corinthians 6:9; Job 5:17–18; Proverbs 3:11–12; Psalm 94:12–13
  19. 19 Isaiah 26:2; Revelation 22:14; Psalm 9:13–14; Psalm 100:4; Isaiah 38:22
  20. 20 Revelation 21:24–27; Isaiah 26:2; Psalm 24:7; Psalm 24:9; Psalm 24:3–4
  21. 21 Psalm 116:1; Exodus 15:2; Psalm 118:14; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 12:2
  22. 22 Luke 20:17; Matthew 21:42; 1 Peter 2:4–8; Acts 4:11; Mark 12:10–11
  23. 23 Job 5:9; Ephesians 1:19–22; Acts 13:41; Acts 4:13; Acts 5:31–32
  24. 24 Psalm 84:10; Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 8:10; 2 Chronicles 20:26–28; 1 Kings 8:66
  25. 25 Psalm 90:17; Psalm 69:13; Psalm 20:9; Psalm 22:21; Psalm 69:1
  26. 26 Luke 19:38; Matthew 21:9; John 12:13; Matthew 23:39; Mark 11:9–10
  27. 27 Psalm 18:28; John 8:12; 1 Peter 2:9; Esther 8:16; Isaiah 60:1
  28. 28 Isaiah 25:1; Psalm 146:2; Exodus 15:2; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:9
  29. 29 Ezra 3:11; Psalm 118:1; Psalm 103:17; Isaiah 63:7

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXVII)

    (ver. 1). These are the courts of the Lord's house, this all His people, this the true Jerusalem. Let those rather listen who have refused to be the children of this city, since they have cut themselves off from the communion of all nations.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 118:19 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XLVI–LII)

    … which is set open for the attainment of life, as it is written, "Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go in by them, and will praise the Lord: this is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter in by it." Although, therefore, many gates have been set open, yet this gate of righteousness is that …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 118:22 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XXXII)

    … understand that all the prophets announced His two advents: the one, indeed, in which He became a man subject to stripes, and knowing what it is to bear infirmity, and sat upon the foal of an ass, and was a stone rejected by the builders, and was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and by the stretching forth of …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 118:1 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book V, Chapters IX–X)

    … delude her in those visions and the answers she had from Thee,--some of which I have spoken of, and others not, --which she kept in her faithful breast, and, always petitioning, pressed upon Thee as Thine autograph. For Thou, "because Thy mercy endureth for ever," condescendest to those whose debts Thou hast pardoned, to become likewise a debtor by Thy …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  5. Quotes verse 118:18 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters LIII–LVIII)

    For thus saith the holy Word: "The Lord hath severely chastened me, yet hath not given me over to death." "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." "The righteous," saith it, "shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head." And again he …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)