Psalms 117:2

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
merciful	חַסְדּ֗וֹ chas.Do	H2617	kindness · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
kindness	חֵסֵד chêçêd	H2617	kindness
great	גָ֘בַ֤ר ga.Var	H1396	to be strong · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
truth	וֶֽאֱמֶת ve.'e.met-	H571	stability · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֥ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
ever	לְעוֹלָ֗ם le.'o.Lam	H5769	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
Praise	הַֽלְלוּ ha.lu-	H1984	to be clear (orig. of sound · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
LORD	יָֽהּ Yah	H3050	Jah · proper noun, a man's name

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Cross-references

Isaiah 25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulnes…
Psalms 103:11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Psalms 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 100:4-5 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth wit…
Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Psalms 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 117:1–end

There is a great deal of gospel in this psalm. The apostle has furnished us with a key to it (Rom 15:11), where he quotes it as a proof that the gospel was to be preached to, and would be entertained by, the Gentile nations, which yet was so great a stumbling-block to the Jews. Why should that offend them when it is said, and they themselves had often sung it, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud him, all you people. Some of the Jewish writers confess that this psalm refers to the kingdom of the Messiah; nay, one of them has a fancy that it consists of two verses to signify that in the days of the Messiah God should be glorified by two sorts of people, by the Jews, according to the la…

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John Gill on Psalms 117:2

For his merciful kindness is great towards us,.... Not us Israelites only, of whom David was, but Gentiles also; or otherwise there would be no force in the reason why all people and nations should praise the Lord: but it respects the time when these should become one people, partaking of the same grace, blessings, promises, and privileges; in which the grace, mercy, and lovingkindness of God, greatly appeared; "it prevailed over us" (p), as it may be rendered: the word is used of the prevailing of the waters of the flood over the earth, Genesis 7:18; and so may denote the exuberance of the grace of God, of the abounding and superabounding of it. There is an abundance of it in the heart of G…

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John Calvin on Psalms 117:1–end

Psalm 117:1-2 1. Praise Jehovah, all ye nations; magnify him:, all ye peoples. [385] 2. Because his mercy is strengthened [386] towards us: and the truth of Jehovah remains for ever. Praise ye Jehovah. 1 Praise Jehovah, all ye nations. The Holy Spirit having, by the mouth of the prophet, exhorted all nations to celebrate the praises of God's mercy and faithfulness, Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, very justly considers this as a prediction respecting the calling of the whole world, (Romans 15:11.) How can unbelievers be qualified for praising God, who, though not entirely destitute of his mercy, yet are insensible of it, and are ignorant of his truth? It would therefore serve no purpose…

The Church Fathers

"For His merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever." These are those two things, loving-kindness and truth, which in the CXVth Psalm I admonished you should be committed to memory. But "the merciful kindness of the Lord is ever more and more towards us," since the furious tongues of hostile nations have yielded to His Name, through which we have been freed: "and the truth of the Lord endures for ever," whether in those things which He promised to the righteous, or in those which He has threatened to the ungodly.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 117

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Dictionary and topics

Temple, the Second — After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims, forming…
Loving-Kindness Of God, The · Described as: Merciful — Described as: Merciful

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 117:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 117:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 117:2

John Calvin on Psalms 117:1–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 117:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 117:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 117:2

John Calvin on Psalms 117:1–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 117:1–end

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 117:2