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Psalms 118

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ✦ 2Let all Israel repeat: “His faithful love endures forever.” ✦ 3Let Aaron’s descendants, the priests, repeat: “His faithful love endures forever.” ✦ 4Let all who fear the Lord repeat: “His faithful love endures forever.” ✦ 5In my distress I prayed to the Lord, and the Lord answered me and set me free. ✦ 6The Lord is for me, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me? ✦ 7Yes, the Lord is for me; he will help me. I will look in triumph at those who hate me. ✦ 8It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in people. ✦ 9It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes. ✦ 10Though hostile nations surrounded me, I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord. ✦ 11Yes, they surrounded and attacked me, but I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord. ✦ 12They swarmed around me like bees; they blazed against me like a crackling fire. But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord. ✦ 13My enemies did their best to kill me, but the Lord rescued me. ✦ 14The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. ✦ 15Songs of joy and victory are sung in the camp of the godly. The strong right arm of the Lord has done glorious things! ✦ 16The strong right arm of the Lord is raised in triumph. The strong right arm of the Lord has done glorious things! ✦ 17I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done. ✦ 18The Lord has punished me severely, but he did not let me die. ✦ 19Open for me the gates where the righteous enter, and I will go in and thank the Lord. ✦ 20These gates lead to the presence of the Lord, and the godly enter there. ✦ 21I thank you for answering my prayer and giving me victory! ✦ 22The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. ✦ 23This is the Lord’s doing, and it is wonderful to see. ✦ 24This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. ✦ 25Please, Lord, please save us. Please, Lord, please give us success. ✦ 26Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord. ✦ 27The Lord is God, shining upon us. Take the sacrifice and bind it with cords on the altar. ✦ 28You are my God, and I will praise you! You are my God, and I will exalt you! ✦ 29Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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