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for <i>he is</i> good: because his mercy <i>endureth</i> for ever.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/106-1.htm">Psalm 106:1</a>, and the comment <span class="accented">ad loc</span>.). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-2.htm">Psalm 118:2</a></div><div class="verse">Let Israel now say, that his mercy <i>endureth</i> for ever.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth forever</span>. (For the triple division of the people made in this and the next two verses - <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> Israel, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> house of Aaron, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> those who fear the Lord - see <a href="/psalms/115-9.htm">Psalm 115:9-11</a>, and 12, 13.) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The nature of the division is considered in the comment on Psalm 115:11. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-3.htm">Psalm 118:3</a></div><div class="verse">Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy <i>endureth</i> for ever.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth forever.</span> Let the priests endorse what the people generally have declared, that God's mercy is ever lasting. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-4.htm">Psalm 118:4</a></div><div class="verse">Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy <i>endureth</i> for ever.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 4.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let them now that fear the Lord say, that his mercy endureth forever.</span> Let the real Israel, the true worshippers of Jehovah, those who worship him in spirit and in truth, set their seal also to the great confession, and solemnly sanction what the people and the priests have done. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-5.htm">Psalm 118:5</a></div><div class="verse">I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, <i>and set me</i> in a large place.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I called upon the Lord in distress</span>; literally, <span class="accented">from the strait place</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. from the straits in which I was. It is generally agreed that the Babylonian captivity is intended. The nation had called to God in its distress by the mouth of Daniel (<a href="/daniel/9-4.htm">Daniel 9:4-19</a>) and of other holy men. <span class="cmt_word">The Lord answered me, and set me in a large place</span>; literally, <span class="accented">the Lord answered me on the open plain</span>. The idea is, "The Lord gave me enlargement" - took me out of my straits - "set my feet in a large room" (<a href="/psalms/31-8.htm">Psalm 31:8</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-6.htm">Psalm 118:6</a></div><div class="verse">The LORD <i>is</i> on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The Lord is on my side</span>. "At this point the speaker transfers his point of view into the past; he is once more fear less in the midst of foes" (Cheyne). I will not fear (comp. <a href="/psalms/23-4.htm">Psalm 23:4</a>; <a href="/psalms/27-1.htm">Psalm 27:1</a>; <a href="/psalms/56-4.htm">Psalm 56:4</a>, etc.). <span class="cmt_word">What can man do unto me?</span> Man is powerless against God. "If God be for us [<span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. on our side], who can be against us?" (<a href="/romans/8-31.htm">Romans 8:31</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-7.htm">Psalm 118:7</a></div><div class="verse">The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see <i>my desire</i> upon them that hate me.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The Lord taketh my part with them that help me</span>; literally, <span class="accented">the Lord is on my side among my helpers</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/54-4.htm">Psalm 54:4</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/54-7.htm">Psalm 54:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/59-10.htm">Psalm 59:10</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-8.htm">Psalm 118:8</a></div><div class="verse"><i>It is</i> better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/62-8.htm">Psalm 62:8, 9</a>). Israel, on its return from the Captivity, had begun by putting a good deal of trust in its human helpers, as Cyrus and the other friendly heathen mentioned in <a href="/ezra/1-4.htm">Ezra 1:4-6</a>; <a href="/ezra/3-7.htm">Ezra 3:7</a>. But this help, after a little time, had failed them (<a href="/ezra/4-1.htm">Ezra 4:1-24</a>), and they had found themselves in great difficulties. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-9.htm">Psalm 118:9</a></div><div class="verse"><i>It is</i> better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes</span>. The "princes" after Cyrus had proved "broken reeds," and, instead of favoring Israel, had favored Israel's enemies (<a href="/ezra/4-6.htm">Ezra 4:6-24</a>). At last Darius had done them justice, but it was felt that no sure dependence could be placed either on him or on his successors. Jehovah alone was Israel's safe ground of confidence, He "would not fail them, nor forsake them" (<a href="/joshua/1-5.htm">Joshua 1:5</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-10.htm">Psalm 118:10</a></div><div class="verse">All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">All nations compassed me about</span>. This is, of course, hyperbole. But it was a fact that all, or almost all, the nations among whom the Israelites dwelt were at all times hostile to them, and sought their destruction. <span class="cmt_word">But in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them</span>; or, "I will mow them down" (comp. <a href="/job/24-24.htm">Job 24:24</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-11.htm">Psalm 118:11</a></div><div class="verse">They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/88-17.htm">Psalm 88:17</a>). The special compassing about alluded to is probably that in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, when not only the Babylonians but the Syrians, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and the Edomites took part in hostilities against Israel (<a href="/2_kings/24-2.htm">2 Kings 24:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7</a>). <span class="cmt_word">But in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them.</span> The threefold repetition of this trenchant phrase (vers. 10, 11, 12) lends it vast additional force. It is no casual utterance, no mere wish, or thought begotten of a wish, but a deep and firm conviction. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-12.htm">Psalm 118:12</a></div><div class="verse">They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They compassed me about like bees</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. in vast numbers, and with intense energy, and a furious desire to injure (comp. <a href="/deuteronomy/1-44.htm">Deuteronomy 1:44</a>; and the powerful description of Virgil, 'Georg.,' 4:236-238). <span class="cmt_word">They are quenched as the fire of thorns</span>. Their fury dies away and goes out suddenly, like a fire kindled among thorns, which blazes up with vast heat and noise, but in a short time dies down and disappears. <span class="cmt_word">For in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them</span> (see the comment on ver. 11). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-13.htm">Psalm 118:13</a></div><div class="verse">Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thou hast thrust lore at me that I might fall</span>; rather, thou didst thrust (Revised Version). The psalmist recalls the past, and throws himself, as it were, once more into the midst of the struggle. Thou - mine enemy, Babylon - didst make s desperate onset upon me, fully intending my destruction. <span class="cmt_word">But the Lord helped me</span>. Frustrated thy purpose - preserved the life, the national life, which thou aimedst at destroying, and so did most effectually "help me." </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-14.htm">Psalm 118:14</a></div><div class="verse">The LORD <i>is</i> my strength and song, and is become my salvation.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation.</span> The deliverance was such that no words but those of the Song of Moses (<a href="/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2</a>) could fitly celebrate it. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-15.htm">Psalm 118:15</a></div><div class="verse">The voice of rejoicing and salvation <i>is</i> in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 15.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous</span> (comp. <a href="/ezra/6-16.htm">Ezra 6:16, 22</a>). "Tabernacles," or "tents," is continually used by the sacred writers as a synonym for "dwellings." The use of the expression here by no means implies that the Israelites of the time were actually living in tents. <span class="cmt_word">The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly</span> (scrap. <a href="/exodus/15-6.htm">Exodus 15:6, 12</a>). God's right hand was at the time stretched out to protect and preserve Israel. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-16.htm">Psalm 118:16</a></div><div class="verse">The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The right hand of the Lord is exalted</span> (compare the parallel expression in <a href="/exodus/15-6.htm">Exodus 15:6</a>, "Thy right hand, O God, <span class="accented">is become glorious in power"</span>). When God's right hand effects a deliverance, it gets, as it were, additional glory to itself. <span class="cmt_word">The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly</span>. So, already, in ver. 16. Repetition is a special characteristic of this psalm (see vers. 1, 2, 3, 4; vers. 8, 9; vers. 10-12, etc.). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-17.htm">Psalm 118:17</a></div><div class="verse">I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 17.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I shall not die, but live</span>. The psalmist speaks, not in his own person, but in the name of his nation. They had been brought very near to extinction; but now the danger was past. God had given them "a reviving" (<a href="/ezra/9-8.htm">Ezra 9:8, 9</a>); and they felt that henceforth they would "live." <span class="cmt_word">And declare the works of the Lord.</span> They would employ the new life granted them in "declaring God's works" (see <a href="/psalms/40-5.htm">Psalm 40:5, 10</a>; <a href="/psalms/96-3.htm">Psalm 96:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/145-4.htm">Psalm 145:4-6</a>); <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. they would witness to all men of "the might of his marvelous acts," and "abundantly utter the memory of his great goodness." </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-18.htm">Psalm 118:18</a></div><div class="verse">The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The Lord hath chastened me sore</span>. By the long sufferings of the Captivity. <span class="cmt_word">But he hath not given me over unto death</span> (see the comment on ver. 17). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-19.htm">Psalm 118:19</a></div><div class="verse">Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, <i>and</i> I will praise the LORD:</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Open to me the gates of righteousness</span>. The great gate of the temple being now reached, admission to the interior is requested. The gates are called "the gates of righteousness," <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> as gates which none but the righteous ought to enter (see the next verse); and <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> as gates through which access is gained to the sanctuary of him who alone is truly righteous, and the source of all righteousness in others. <span class="cmt_word">I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord</span>. Praise could be given to God any where; but it was most appropriately offered "in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem" (<a href="/psalms/116-19.htm">Psalm 116:19</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-20.htm">Psalm 118:20</a></div><div class="verse">This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 20.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter</span>; rather, <span class="accented">this is the gate of the Lord</span>: <span class="accented">the righteous</span> [and they alone] <span class="accented">shall enter by it</span>. "This verse seems to stand apart - a solo, chanted by a voice out of the temple gate" (Kay). Though sinners doubtless sometimes entered (<a href="/2_kings/11-13.htm">2 Kings 11:13</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/26-16.htm">2 Chronicles 26:16-20</a>; <a href="/john/2-14.htm">John 2:14</a>), none but the righteous had any right to enter. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-21.htm">Psalm 118:21</a></div><div class="verse">I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I will praise thee; for thou hast heard me.</span> The chant of the procession as it enters - a prolongation of the strain begun in ver. 19. And art become my salvation (comp. ver. 14). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-22.htm">Psalm 118:22</a></div><div class="verse">The stone <i>which</i> the builders refused is become the head <i>stone</i> of the corner.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 22.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.</span> The primary and literal meaning seems to be - " Israel, which the great of the world, those who think to arrange the world ac cording to their own ideas, have rejected and would fain have cast aside, has, nevertheless, despite their rejection, attained to eminence, and been advanced, by the course of events, into such a position, that it may be regarded as the head corner-stone - the most important of all the nations of the world." Any Messianic reference is secondary and subordinate. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-23.htm">Psalm 118:23</a></div><div class="verse">This is the LORD'S doing; it <i>is</i> marvellous in our eyes.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 23.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes</span>. This fresh elevation of Israel to importance - especially to such great importance - can only be attributed to the work of Divine providence. It is "the Lord's doing" - literally, "from the Lord" - and is one of the most marvelous events of history. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-24.htm">Psalm 118:24</a></div><div class="verse">This <i>is</i> the day <i>which</i> the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 24.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">This is the day which the Lord hath made</span>. The thanksgiving day is one which has been fore-ordained of God, and brought into existence by him for a special purpose. <span class="cmt_word">We will</span> therefore carry out God's purpose, and <span class="cmt_word">rejoice and be glad in it.</span> </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-25.htm">Psalm 118:25</a></div><div class="verse">Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 25.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord</span>; or, "we beseech thee." The interjectional <span class="hebrew">אנא</span> is as suitable to the several speakers as to one. <span class="cmt_word">O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. continue to save, continue to send prosperity. Israel feels its constant dependence upon God, and that if the Divine care were remitted for a day, or for an hour, all would be lost. Tears, as Professor Cheyne observes, continually mingle with Israel's laughter. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-26.htm">Psalm 118:26</a></div><div class="verse">Blessed <i>be</i> he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 26.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Blessed be he that cometh in the Name of the Lord</span>. Once more a voice issues from the interior of the temple (comp. ver. 20). The priestly choir there stationed to receive the procession, blesses it as coming "in the Name of the Lord;" <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. for a religious purpose, and with pious intentions. <span class="cmt_word">We have blessed you, they say</span> (or, rather perhaps, we <span class="accented">bless you</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>out of the house of the Lord</span>. "The house of the Lord is the fountain and the treasury of all blessing" (Hengstenberg). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-27.htm">Psalm 118:27</a></div><div class="verse">God <i>is</i> the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, <i>even</i> unto the horns of the altar.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 27.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">God is the Lord, which hath showed us light</span>. Having received the priestly benediction, the processionists resume their strain. They have entered within the courts; they are approaching the altar of sacrifice; they have brought their offering. "Jehovah," they say, "is God, and hath given us light" (see the Revised Version). That is, he has enlightened our spirits to see and acknowledge his mercies; or, perhaps, he has led us, as he did the people, by a pillar of fire in the wilderness; and now we stand before the altar with our offering - <span class="cmt_word">receive it at our hands, ye priests-and bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.</span> So shalt the act of thanksgiving be complete, and the solemn service ended. The fanciful exposition of Luther, lately revived by Professor Cheyne, will scarcely approve itself to critics generally. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-28.htm">Psalm 118:28</a></div><div class="verse">Thou <i>art</i> my God, and I will praise thee: <i>thou art</i> my God, I will exalt thee.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 28.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.</span> This is the acknowledgment made by each and all, and probably repeated many times, while the sacrifice is being consumed upon the altar. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/118-29.htm">Psalm 118:29</a></div><div class="verse">O give thanks unto the LORD; for <i>he is</i> good: for his mercy <i>endureth</i> for ever.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 29.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever</span>. The psalm ends, as it began, with the usual thanksgiving refrain (comp. <a href="/1_chronicles/16-34.htm">1 Chronicles 16:34</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/5-13.htm">2 Chronicles 5:13</a>; <a href="/ezra/3-11.htm">Ezra 3:11</a>; <a href="/psalms/106-1.htm">Psalm 106:1</a>; <a href="/psalms/107-1.htm">Psalm 107:1</a>; <a href="/psalms/118-1.htm">Psalm 118:1-4</a>; <a href="/psalms/136-1.htm">Psalm 136:1-26</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> </div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Pulpit Commentary, Electronic Database. 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