Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 118:2
Let Israel, the entire nation, as the chosen people of God, now say that His mercy endureth forever.
Let Israel, the entire nation, as the chosen people of God, now say that His mercy endureth forever.
Verse Psalms 118:2. _LET ISRAEL NOW SAY_] Seeing the hand of the Lord so visibly, and the deliverance gained, that _God's mercy endureth for_ _ever_....
LET ISRAEL NOW SAY ... - The Hebrew people; the people of God. They have now, in my case, a new illustration of the mercy of God which ought to animate them, and to encourage their hearts. Compare Psa...
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:...
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:...
Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. LET ISRAEL ... THE HOUSE OF AARON ... THEM NOW THAT FEAR THE LORD, SAY ... The same division as in Psalms 115:9, where see note. Compare Psalm...
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...
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...
(1-4) Comp. Psalms 115:9, where a similar choral arrangement is found....
יֹֽאמַר ־נָ֥א יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֖י לְ עֹולָ֣ם חַ
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...
His testimonies. The commandments of God are called his testimonies, because they testify his holy will unto us. Note here, that in almost every verse of this psalm, (which in number are 176) the word...
Here, as in many psalms of a like nature, is an invitation to praise Jehovah; and the several orders of the people are especially called upon to this service. The house of Aaron is mentioned by name;...
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...
LET ISRAEL NOW SAY, THAT HIS MERCY [ENDURETH] FOR EVER. Let such who have had an experience of it acknowledge and declare it to others; not only believe in it with their hearts, and privately give tha...
Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever. Ver. 2. _Let Israel now say_] All the Israel of God, for only such are fit to praise God: excellent words become not a fool; the leper's lips a...
_O give thanks unto the Lord_ All sorts of persons, which are expressed particularly in the next three verses, as they are mentioned in like manner and order Psalms 115:9, where see the notes. _Let Is...
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...
ISRAEL, after the flesh, all the tribes and people of Israel, except the Levites....
Psalms 118:2 Israel H3478 say H559 (H8799) mercy H2617 forever H5769 Psalms 115:9-11,...
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...
_O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: because His mercy endureth for ever._ THE PERPETUITY OF DIVINE MERCY This is a subject for-- I. Joyous gratitude. “O give thanks,”_ etc._ Why should th...
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
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...
1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; Galatians 6:16; Hebrews 13:15; Psalms 115