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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
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
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...
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.”
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.”