Psalms 118:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
World English Bible
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 his loving kindness endures forever.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:8Oh give thanks to the LORD. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.
Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 106:1Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Psalms 118:29Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
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 those who say, ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Armies, for the LORD is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into the LORD’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says 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 →