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Psalm 118 Free Bible Version

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1 Thank the Lord, for he is good! His trustworthy love lasts forever.
1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
2 Let all Israel say, “His trustworthy love lasts forever.”
2 Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
3 Let Aaron's descendants say, “His trustworthy love lasts forever.”
3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
4 Let those who honor the Lord say, “His trustworthy love lasts forever.”
4 Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever.
5 I was suffering badly, so I cried out to the Lord for help. He answered me and set me free from my pain.
5 Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
6 The Lord is with me, so I have nothing to fear. No one can harm me.
6 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
7 The Lord is with me, he will help me. I will see those who hate me defeated.
7 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
8 It's better to rely on the Lord than to trust in people.
8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.
9 It's better to rely on the Lord than to trust in the rich and powerful.
9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.
10 Even though all the heathen nations surrounded me, I defeated them with the help of the Lord.
10 All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
11 They completely surrounded me, but even so I defeated them with the help of the Lord.
11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
12 Like a swarm of bees they attacked, but their attack died out as quickly as burning thorn twigs. I defeated them with the help of the Lord.
12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
13 They tried as hard as they could to kill me, but the Lord helped me.
13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
14 The Lord is my strength, and the one I sing about. He is the one who saves me.
14 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
15 Songs of celebration and victory come from the tents of the faithful. The Lord's powerful hand has done amazing things!
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
16 The Lord raises his powerful hand in victory! The Lord's powerful hand has done amazing things!
16 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
17 I'm not going to die. In fact I'm going to live, and let people know what the Lord has done.
17 I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
18 Even though the Lord punished me severely, he did not let me die.
18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open the gates of the faithful for me so I can go in and thank the Lord.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
20 These are the gates of the Lord where God's faithful people enter.
20 This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.
21 I want to thank you for answering me and for being the one who saves me.
21 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
22 The stone rejected by the builders has turned out to be the chief cornerstone.
22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
23 The Lord has done this, and it looks wonderful to us!
23 This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
24 The Lord made this day happen! We will celebrate and be happy for it!
24 This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
25 Lord, please save us! Lord, please make us successful!
25 Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
26 May the one who comes in the power of the Lord by blessed! We bless you from the house of the Lord!
26 Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
27 The Lord is God, and his goodness shines on us. Branches in hand, start the procession up towards the altar.
27 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
28 You are my God, and I will thank you! You are my God, and I will praise you!
28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
29 Thank the Lord, for he is good! His trustworthy love lasts forever!
29 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness 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)