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Psalms 118

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ✦ 2Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever. ✦ 3Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever. ✦ 4Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever. ✦ 5Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom. ✦ 6Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? ✦ 7Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me. ✦ 8It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man. ✦ 9It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes. ✦ 10All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off. ✦ 11They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off. ✦ 12They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off. ✦ 13You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me. ✦ 14Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. ✦ 15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. ✦ 16The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!” ✦ 17I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works. ✦ 18Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death. ✦ 19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah. ✦ 20This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it. ✦ 21I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation. ✦ 22The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. ✦ 23This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. ✦ 24This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it! ✦ 25Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now. ✦ 26Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house. ✦ 27Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. ✦ 28You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you. ✦ 29Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 18 ·6Exod 15 ·5Ps 107 ·4Mic 7 ·4Ps 56 ·4Ps 40 ·41 Pet 2 ·4Ps 22 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 118 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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