Jeremiah 17:5-7; Micah 7:5-7; Psalms 40:4; Psalms 62:8; Psalms 62:9
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man - This is stated apparently as the result of his own experience. He had found peo...
[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence (d) in man. (d) He shows that he had trusted in vain if he had put his confidence in man,...
CXVIII. A Hymn for Festal Procession to Zion. The old tradition that different parts were appropriated to different voices is right in substance, t...
It is better... Than. Figure of speech Connotes (App-6), repeated in Psalms 118:9 . better . good. By Figure of speech Heterosis (App-6), th...
8 It is better to trust in Jehovah He appears to state nothing but what is common-place, it being unanimously admitted, that when God and me...
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. Better to trust in the Lord - Man is feeble, ignorant, fickle, and capricious; it...
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. -At the beginning ( Psalms 118:5 ) and at the close of...
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...
Trust in God Brings Strength Psalms 118:1-14 It is generally agreed that this psalm dates back to the restoration from Babylon. It was probably...
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...
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...
[It is] better to trust in the Lord ,.... This, with what follows in Psalms 118:9 , is the conclusion from the above premises and experience; it is...
Psalms 118:8 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. Ver. 8. It is better to trust in the Lord, &c. ] Luther on t...
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...
Goodness of God Celebrated; Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 O give thanks...
As mine adversaries do in their own numbers, and in their great confederates.
INTRODUCTION 1. The last of the group (113–118.) constituting the Hallel. 2. Certainly a temple Psalm, most probably composed for a great occasion...
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 LOR...
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...
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...
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...
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man, man at his best being but a weak and helpless creature.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.