Psalms 118:1
Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age [is] His kindness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
In Context
2I pray you, let Israel say, That, to the age [is] His kindness.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:8Give thanks to Jehovah, call in His name, Make known among the peoples His doings.
Psalms 100:5For good [is] Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!
Psalms 106:1Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness.
Psalms 118:29Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness!
Jeremiah 33:11Is a voice of joy and a voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, The voice of those saying, Thank Jehovah of Hosts, for Jehovah [is] good, For His kindness [is] to the age, Who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah, For I turn back the captivity of the land, As at the first, said Jehovah.
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 →