Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 118:5
I called upon the LORD in (b) distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.
(b) We are here taught that the more that troubles oppress us, the more ought we to be instant in prayer.
I called upon the LORD in (b) distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.
(b) We are here taught that the more that troubles oppress us, the more ought we to be instant in prayer.
Verse Psalms 118:5. _I CALLED UPON THE LORD_] I am a standing proof and living witness of God's mercy. Take encouragement from me....
I CALLED UPON THE LORD IN DISTRESS - Margin, as in Hebrew, “out of distress.” In the very midst of trouble he called upon the Lord; his voice was heard, as it were, coming from the depth of his sorrow...
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:...
THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4. AND SET ME IN. LARGE PLACE. The current Hebrew text. with the deliverance of JAH, _bammerhab yah_ (two words). The Massoretic text reads it as one word, _bammerhabyah_. wi...
THE LORD ANSWERED ME, AND SET ME IN A LARGE PLACE,— _The Lord answered me with enlargement._ Mudge....
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...
IN DISTRESS] lit. 'in a strait place.' THE LORD] RM 'Heb. _Jah,_' a contraction of Jehovah....
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...
I CALLED. — Better, _out of the straitness I cried to Jah; answered me, with freedom, Jah._ The meaning of the last clause (literally, _with room._ Comp.: “Ay, marry, now my soul has elbow-room” — _Ki...
מִֽן ־הַ֭ מֵּצַ֥ר קָרָ֣אתִי יָּ֑הּ עָנָ֖נִי ב
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...
_O! that. Conscious of his own insufficiently, he prays for grace to be justified. (Worthington) --- Moses acknowledged, that man could not observe the law, without Christ, Deuteronomy xxx 11., and Ro...
It is impossible to overlook Jesus in this verse. Surely to none so applicable as to him are these expressions; and to none can we refer them with equal propriety. Who had so large a place, or such fr...
5_I called upon God in my distress. _We have here a particular application of the doctrine we formerly mentioned, to the person of David; with which also is conjoined the rejoicing of the whole Church...
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...
I CALLED UPON THE LORD IN DISTRESS,.... Or "out of that strait" q; when David was encompassed by Saul and his men, or when at the court of Achish, or when his own people talked of stoning him. As this...
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place. Ver. 5. _I called upon the Lord in distress_] Heb. out of distress, _q.d._ I celebrate not God's mercy of cour...
_I called upon the Lord in distress_ As if he had said, You may see an example of the divine mercy in me, who was in grievous straits and dangers, but, imploring God's protection and help, he _answere...
I called upon the Lord in distress, when he was in straits, in such difficulties that he could turn neither to the right nor to the left; THE LORD ANSWERED ME AND SET ME IN A LARGE PLACE, where he had...
A PSALM FOR FESTIVAL SERVICES. This hymn, written altogether in the style of David, bears a liturgical character and was, in fact, used in the Jewish Church upon the occasion of the great festivals, a...
IN DISTRESS: _ Heb._ out of distress...
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...
SET ME; which verb is tacitly included in the former, and is easily understood out of PSALMS 31:8, where the full phrase is expressed, and from the following word. See the like examples in the Hebrew...
Psalms 118:5 called H7121 (H8804) LORD H3050 distress H4712 LORD H3050 answered H6030 (H8804) place H4800...
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...
_The Lord. .. set me in a large place._ GOD THE DELIVERER AND DEFENDER OF HIS PEOPLE I. The deliverer (verse 5). 1. The deliverance seems to have consisted in raising him from a circumscribed to an...
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 Samuel 30:6; Genesis 32:7; Genesis 32:9; Mark 14:31; Psalms 107:13