Psalms 118

Praise to God for His Loyal Love

¹Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good,

for his loyal love is forever.

²Let Israel say,

“His loyal love is forever.”

³Let the house of Aaron say,

“His loyal love is forever.”

⁴Let those who fear Yahweh say,

“His loyal love is forever.”

⁵Out of my distress I called to Yah.[#A shortened form of “Yahweh”]

Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place.

⁶Yahweh is for me; I do not fear.

What can mere humans do to me?

⁷Yahweh is for me as my helper,

and so I will look in triumph on those who hate me.

⁸It is better to take refuge in Yahweh

than to trust in humans.

⁹It is better to take refuge in Yahweh

than to trust princes.

¹⁰All nations surrounded me.

In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹¹They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me.

In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹²They surrounded me like bees;

they were extinguished like a fire of thorns.

In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹³You pushed me hard to make me fall,[#Hebrew intensive “pushing, you pushed me”]

but Yahweh helped me.

¹⁴Yah is my strength and my song,[#A shortened form of “Yahweh”; #Or “my might”]

and he has become my salvation.

¹⁵The sound of rejoicing and salvation[#Or “victory”]

is in the tents of the righteous;

the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly.

¹⁶The right hand of Yahweh has exalted;

the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly.

¹⁷I will not die but live,

and tell of the works of Yah.

¹⁸Yah has disciplined me severely,

but he did not consign me to death.

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness,

that I may enter through them

and give thanks to Yah.

²⁰This is the gate of Yahweh,

through which the righteous will enter.

²¹I will give thanks to you for you have answered me,

and you have become my salvation.

²²The stone the builders rejected

has become the chief cornerstone.

²³This is from Yahweh;

it is wonderful in our eyes.

²⁴This is the day Yahweh has worked;[#Or “made”]

let us rejoice and be glad in him.

²⁵O Yahweh, please save;

O Yahweh, please grant success.

²⁶Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh.

We bless you from the house of Yahweh.

²⁷Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.[#Or “made his light to shine upon to us”]

Bind the festal sacrifice with cords

to the horns of the altar.

²⁸You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.

You are my God; I will exalt you.

²⁹Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good,

for his loyal love is forever.