Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 118:9
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes, for their power, after all, is small, and their favor deceitful.
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes, for their power, after all, is small, and their favor deceitful.
Verse Psalms 118:9. _IN PRINCES._] Men of high estate are generally _proud,_ _vain-glorious, self-confident_, and _rash_: it is better to trust in God than in them. Often they _cannot_ deliver, and of...
IT IS BETTER ... THAN TO PUT CONFIDENCE IN PRINCES - Even in the most mighty of the human race; in those who of all people may be supposed to have the most ability to aid us; in those whose favor is o...
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:...
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...
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...
TRUST. — The word constantly used of the security the Israelite found in his relation to Jehovah. The meaning here is apparently, “Fidelity to the covenant is better than alliance with foreign princes...
טֹ֗וב לַ חֲסֹ֥ות בַּ יהוָ֑ה מִ֝ בְּטֹ֗חַ
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...
_Correct. Symmachus, "illustrate." (Calmet) --- The observance of the law is the only method to preserve innocence, or to regain it. (Haydock) --- The Holy Ghost gives this direction to youth, and to...
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...
[IT IS] BETTER TO TRUST IN THE LORD,.... The Targum is, "in the Word of the Lord.'' This is repeated for the sake of what follows: THAN TO PUT CONFIDENCE IN PRINCES; who have greater ability to hel...
Psalms 118:9 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. Ver. 9. _Than to put confidence in princes_] _In ingenuis._ Great men's words, saith one, are like dead men's shoes...
_It is better to trust in the Lord_ It is much safer, and more to a person's comfort; _than to put confidence in man_ As mine enemies do in their own numbers, and in their powerful confederates. “Armi...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 118:9 better H2896 trust H2620 (H8800) LORD H3068 confidence H982 (H8800) princes H5081 than to put -...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
_It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man._ CONFIDENCE IN. GOD I. As justified by experience. “It is better,” says Matthew Henry, “more wise, more comfortable, and more safe, t...
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 118:8 The experiences of God’s help show that IT IS BETTER TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE LORD (see note on 31:1–2;...
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...
Ezekiel 29:7; Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 30:3; Isaiah 31:1;...