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19Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

Psalms 118:19

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

  • Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

  • Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

  • Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: …

  • Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

Commentary

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

(vv. 19-29)

We have here an illustrious prophecy of the humiliation and exaltation of our Lord Jesus, his sufferings, and the glory that should follow. Peter thus applies it directly to the chief priests and scribes, and none of them could charge him with misapplying it, Acts 4:11. Now observe here, I. The preface with which this precious prophecy is introduced, Ps. 118:19-21. 1. The psalmist desires admissio…

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