Psalms 118:1
Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:8Song. Give thanks to the Lord, call upon him by his name, make known his designs among the people.
Psalms 100:5Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart,—with him I have not eaten.
Psalms 106:1Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.
Psalms 118:29Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me + 118:29 q. d. in teaching me thy law.by thy law.
Jeremiah 33:11Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death is due to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
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 →