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Psalm 118 Literal Standard Version

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Notes on this text (1)

1 Give thanks to YHWH, || For [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time. 2 Now let Israel say, || His kindness [is] for all time. 3 Now let the house of Aaron say, || His kindness [is] for all time. 4 Now let those fearing YHWH say, || His kindness [is] for all time. 5 I called YAH from the narrow place, || YAH answered me in a broad place. 6 YHWH [is] for me, || I do not fear what man does to me. 7 YHWH [is] for me among my helpers, || And I look on those hating me. 8 Better to take refuge in YHWH, || Than to trust in man, 9 Better to take refuge in YHWH, || Than to trust in princes. 10 All nations have surrounded me, || In the Name of YHWH I surely cut them off. 11 They have surrounded me, || Indeed, they have surrounded me, || In the Name of YHWH I surely cut them off. 12 They surrounded me as bees, || They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, || In the Name of YHWH I surely cut them off. 13 You have severely thrust me to fall, || And YHWH has helped me. 14 YAH is my strength and song, || And He is to me for salvation. 15 A voice of singing and salvation, || [Is] in the tents of the righteous, || The right hand of YHWH is doing valiantly. 16 The right hand of YHWH is exalted, || The right hand of YHWH is doing valiantly. 17 I do not die, but live, || And recount the works of YAH, 18 YAH has severely disciplined me, || And has not given me up to death. 19 Open gates of righteousness to me, || I enter into them—I thank YAH. 20 This [is] the gate to YHWH, || The righteous enter into it. 21 I thank You, for You have answered me, || And are to me for salvation. 22 A stone the builders refused || Has become head of a corner. 23 This has been from YHWH, || It [is] wonderful in our eyes, 24 This [is] the day YHWH has made, || We rejoice and are glad in it. 25 Ah, now, O YHWH, please save, || Ah, now, O YHWH, please prosper. 26 Blessed [is] He who is coming || In the Name of YHWH, || We blessed you from the house of YHWH, 27 God [is] YHWH, and He gives light to us, || Direct the festal-sacrifice with cords, || To the horns of the altar. 28 You [are] my God, and I confess You, || My God, I exalt You. 29 Give thanks to YHWH, || For [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time!

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)