Psalms 118:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 118:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 16:34
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 107:1
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 106:1
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Jeremiah 33:11
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Psalms 118:29
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Gratitude Guidance Lord Majesty Song

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

It appears here, as often as elsewhere, that David had his heart full of the goodness of God. He loved to think of it, loved to speak of it, and was very solicitous that God might have the praise of it and others the comfort of it. The more our hearts are impressed with a sense of God’s goodness the more they will be enlarged in all manner of obedience. In these verses, I. He celebrates God’s merc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 118:1-29. After invoking others to unite in praise, the writer celebrates God’s protecting and delivering care towards him, and then represents himself and the people of God as entering the sanctuary and uniting in solemn praise, with prayer for a continued blessing. Whether composed by David on his accession to power, or by some later writer in memory of the restoration from Babylon, its tone…