Ezra 3:11; Isaiah 63:7; Psalms 103:17; Psalms 118:1
O give thanks unto the Lord ... - The psalm closes, as it began, with an exhortation to praise God. In the beginning of the psalm, it was a gener...
CXVIII. A Hymn for Festal Procession to Zion. The old tradition that different parts were appropriated to different voices is right in substance, t...
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the Lord - This is the general doxology or choru...
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endu...
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 procession...
Psalms 118:1-29 THIS is unmistakably a psalm for use in the Temple worship, and probably meant to be sung antiphonally, on some day of national re...
a New Way in a New Day Psalms 118:15-29 As we draw near the mellowing light of the sanctuary we see more deeply into the divine meaning of our...
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 i...
In the same firm belief with the Psalmist, that this God in Christ is our God in Christ, let us adopt his plan, and end the Psalm, as we began it, in...
REFLECTIONS SURELY this Psalm opens a most blessed view of Jesus; and it is hardly possible to go over the perusal of it, if the soul be at all awak...
O give thanks unto the Lord, for [he is] good ,.... And thus the psalm ends as it began; there having been given many instances of the divine goodne...
O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. Ver. 29. O give thanks unto the Lord, &c. ] Repetit proaemi...
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee , &c. In these verses the psalmist subjoins his own thankful acknowledgments of divine goodness, in whic...
David Triumphs in God; The Humiliation and Exaltation of the Messiah. ...
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INTRODUCTION 1. The last of the group (113–118.) constituting the Hallel. 2. Certainly a temple Psalm, most probably composed for a great occasion...
O give thanks unto the Lord The Messianic Psalms: Summary. That the Psalms contain a testimony to Christ our Lord Himself affirmed ( Luke 24:4...
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. Alth...
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 whic...
EXPOSITION AN antiphonal hymn, composed for a joyful occasion, when there was to be a procession to the temple, a welcoming of the procession...
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 Jew...
O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever, this same merciful favor being the sustaining power in the believers of...
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.