Psalms 118:1
Praise yee the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 mercy endureth for euer.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:8Praise the Lord and call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people.
Psalms 100:5For the Lord is good: his mercy is euerlasting, and his trueth is from generation to generation.
Psalms 106:1Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord because he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.
Psalms 118:29Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.
Jeremiah 33:11The voyce of ioy and the voyce of gladnes, the voyce of the bridegrome, and the voyce of the bride, the voyce of them that shall say, Prayse the Lord of hostes, because the Lord is good: for his mercy endureth for euer, and of them that offer the sacrifice of prayse in the House of the Lord, for I will cause to returne the captiuitie of the land, as at the first, sayth 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 →