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Commentaries on Psalms 118:4

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 118 Kimchi says their Rabbins are divided about this psalm. Some understand it of David; others of the Messiah: but, with us Christians, there ought to be no doubt of its belonging to the Messiah; since our Lord has quoted a passage out of it, and applied it to himself, Psalms 118:22; see Matthew 21:42; and so has the Apostle Peter, Acts 4:11. Nor did the Jews of those...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Let them now that fear the Lord say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever. Not the proselytes to the Jewish religion only, but all that feared the Lord among all people, as Aben Ezra observes; such as fear the Lord and his goodness, and have had an experience of his grace and mercy, which has caused them to fear him; and to whom the mercy of God is great, and on whom it is from everlasting to...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

It is probable that David penned this psalm when he had, after many a story, weathered his point at last, and gained a full possession of the kingdom to which he had been anointed. He then invites and stirs up his friends to join with him, not only in a cheerful acknowledgment of God's goodness and a cheerful dependence upon that goodness for the future, but in a believing expectation of the...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever. You have tried it: you have proved it. The mercy of God has followed you in all your devious paths. It will follow you even to the end. “His mercy endureth for ever.”

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever. Let them all say it: let them all say it now: let every one of us say it for himself, “His mercy endureth for every.”