Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 118:14
The Lord is my Strength, affording the believer might to overcome, and Song, the subject of hymns of praise at all times, and is become my Salvation, delivering him from all enemies.
The Lord is my Strength, affording the believer might to overcome, and Song, the subject of hymns of praise at all times, and is become my Salvation, delivering him from all enemies.
THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH AND SONG - He is the source of strength to me; and he is the subject of my praise. There is no ground of praise in myself for anything that I have done, but all is due to him....
PSALM 118-119 Psalms 118 Christ the Head of the Corner _ 1. His mercy endureth forever (Psalms 118:1)_ 2. The past experience (Psalms 118:8) 3. Jehovah My Salvation ...
CXVIII. A HYMN FOR FESTAL PROCESSION TO ZION. The old tradition that different parts were appropriated to different voices is right in substance, though the statement of the Targum that in Psalms 118:...
SONG. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the theme of the song. SALVATION. Compare Psalms 118:21.Exodus 15:2.Isaiah 12:2. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6,...
PSALMS 118 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Passover Hosanna-Song. ANALYSIS (See bracketed Headlines let into the Psalm). (P.R.I.) Praise ye Yah! (PART I.INVITATIONS TO PRAISE.) (First in Standing Refrain:...
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. -At the beginning () and at the close of this division (Psalms 118:13) the salvation already received is descr...
118:14 salvation. (k-12) See Exodus 15:2 ; Isaiah 12:2 . For 'Jah' see Psalms 68:4 ; Psalms 89:8 ....
This Ps. was evidently written for the Temple worship on the occasion of some great festival (Psalms 118:24), when it might be used as a processional hymn. It has been variously referred (_a_) to the...
Quoted from Exodus 15:2....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ HOSANNA! (SAVE US NOW!) PSALMS 118 Jesus said, "Did you not read (this) in the Bible? The *builders threw away a stone. It is now in an important place at the c...
THOU HAST. — Better, _Thou didst thrust and thrust at me._ This sudden change of person and challenge of the foes themselves is very dramatic....
עָזִּ֣י וְ זִמְרָ֣ת יָ֑הּ וַֽ יְהִי ־לִ֝֗י
Psalms 118:1 THIS is unmistakably a psalm for use in the Temple worship, and probably meant to be sung antiphonally, on some day of national rejoicing (Psalms 118:24). A general concurrence of opinion...
TRUST IN GOD BRINGS STRENGTH Psalms 118:1 It is generally agreed that this psalm dates back to the restoration from Babylon. It was probably used as a processional hymn for the first time at the grea...
This is the sixth and last of the Hallel. It is the song of perfect victory, and was undoubtedly arranged to be sung by the triumphal procession as it made its way to the Temple for thanksgiving and w...
The LORD [is] my strength and (f) song, and is become my salvation. (f) In that he was delivered, it came not from himself, not from the power of man, but only from God's favour, therefore he will pr...
_Riches. I give thy law the preference, Psalm xviii. 9. (Calmet)_...
I make no pause in these verses, because I think they contain a beautiful subject, in reference to the Lord Jesus in his ministry; and it were a pity to interrupt the reading. Let the Reader, when he...
Psalms 118 is also, though not formally so, rendering praise and thanksgiving as promised, connected with, or rather founded on, the known formula His mercy endureth for ever. The same that in Psalms...
THE LORD [IS] MY STRENGTH AND SONG,.... It being in the name of the Lord the enemies of the psalmist were destroyed; and having obtained help of him when sore thrust at, he gives him all the glory, an...
The LORD [is] my strength and song, and is become my salvation. Ver. 14. _The Lord is my strength and song_] _i.e._ The matter of my song, and mean of my joy. Trust in God shall once triumph....
_Thou hast thrust sore at me_, &c. O mine enemy. The singular number may possibly be here put collectively for all his enemies; or, this apostrophe, which is strong, might be directed to some particul...
1-18 The account the psalmist here gives of his troubles is very applicable to Christ: many hated him without a cause; nay, the Lord himself chastened him sorely, bruised him, and put him to grief, t...
MY STRENGTH AND SONG; the author of my strength, and therefore the just object of my song and praise. My salvation, i.e. my Saviour....
Psalms 118:14 LORD H3050 strength H5797 song H2176 salvation H3444 is my strength - Psalms 18:2;...
Psalms 118:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever._ Here is a standing reason for thanksgiving. Although we may not always be healthy, nor always prosper...
May the Good Spirit, who taught the psalmist to indite these words help us to feel their inward meaning! Psalms 118:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for eve...
CONTENTS: Cheerful acknowledgement of God's goodness and dependence upon that goodness for the future. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Never failing streams of mercy flow from our God. The more our hea...
This psalm is destitute of title, and the occasion on which it was composed is not known. The style however, the subject, the masterly manner in which it is treated, and the spirit which pervades the...
_Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall: but the Lord helped me._ CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE Christian experience is the richest product of grace, and it ought to be laid at the feet of the Well-be...
_The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation._ GOD AND MAN I. How God should be realized by every man. What should He be to every many 1. He should be his strength. All the strengt...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 118:1. This joyful psalm calls on all of God’s people to praise the Lord for his steadfast love (vv. Psalms 118:1). It then moves to wha
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 118:14 The deliverance of vv. Psalms 118:10 leads to celebration in the camp of God’s people. Verse...
INTRODUCTION 1. The last of the group (113–118.) constituting the Hallel. 2. Certainly a temple Psalm, most probably composed for a great occasion. “Some incline to the Davidic authorship, when he wa...
EXPOSITION AN antiphonal hymn, composed for a joyful occasion, when there was to be a procession to the temple, a welcoming of the procession by those inside, and the solemn offering of a sacrifice up...
As we get into Psalms 118:1-29, the last of the Hallel psalms. O give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 118:1); Again, the exhortation, praise and thanks, "O give thanks unto the Lord." for he is good: b...
Exodus 15:2; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 45:17; Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 1:21;
Salvation — My Saviour....