Psalms 118:1
'O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
In Context
2So let Israel now say, for His mercy endureth for ever,
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:8O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.
Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good; His mercy endureth for ever; and His faithfulness unto all generations.
Psalms 106:1Hallelujah. O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 118:29O give thanks unto 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 say: 'Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endureth for ever', even of them that bring offerings of thanksgiving into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return 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 →