Psalms 118:1
Give praise to Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
In Context
2Let Israel now say that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:8Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings among the nations.
Psalms 100:5for the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.
Psalms 106:1Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 118:29O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Jeremiah 33:11The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 118:1
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he had, after many a story, weathered his point at last, and gained a full possession of the kingdom to which he had been anointed. He then invites and stirs up his friends to join with him, not only in a cheerful acknowledgment of God's goodness and a cheerful dependence upon that goodness for the future, but in a believing expectation of the promised Messiah, of whose kingdom and his exaltation to it his were typical. To him, it is certain, the prophet here bears… Read the whole commentary →