Psalms 118:1
Alleluia. 1 Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. 1
Updated 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, 1 Make known his designs among the people. 1
Psalms 100:5Him that privily speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from me: 1 He that is proud in look and insatiable in heart—with him I have not eaten. 1
Psalms 106:1Alleluia. 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; 1 For his mercy endures forever. 1
Psalms 118:29Remove from me the way of iniquity; 1 And be merciful to me by thy law. 1
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 →