Psalms 118:28
in Psalms 118You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto thee: Thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
KJV
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
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This verse in Psalms 118
Commentary
10 notes on this verseThou art my God, and I will praise thee, my mighty God who hath done this mighty and marvellous thing. Thou shalt be mine, and all the praise my soul is capable of shall be poured forth at thy feet. Thou art my God, I will exalt thee. Thou hast exalted me, and as far as my praises can do it, I will exalt thy name. Jesus is magnified, and he magnifies the Father according to his prayer, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee."
This site's exposition
The LORD is God
on Psalms 118:27-29
The festal sacrifice is bound to the horns of the altar with cords, the animal tied at the corner where it is killed. The confession doubles, You are my God, twice over, and Exodus 15:2 closes the same way with I will exalt Him. Verse 29 is verse 1 again.
This site's exposition
You are my God, and I will give You thanks
Spurgeon read the doubled You are my God as an exchange: the LORD exalted the psalmist, and the psalmist answers by exalting Him. He heard the exchange in Jesus' prayer at John 17:1, that the Father glorify the Son so the Son may glorify Him. Thanks returns what was given.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
But that ye also may understand, "Declare a holy day in full assemblies, even unto the horns of the altar;" that is, even unto the inner house of God, from which we have blessed you, where are the high places of the altar. "Declare a holy day," not in a slothful manner, but "in full assemblies" (ver. 28). For this is the voice of joyfulness among those that keep holy day, who walk "in the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God." For if there be there the spiritual sacrifice, the everlasting sacrifice of praise, both the Priest is everlasting, and the peaceful mind of the righteous an everlasting altar. ...
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
In him it is that God is good to man and that his mercy endures for ever; in him the covenant of grace is made, and in him it is made sure, made good, and made an everlasting covenant.
13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the L ORD helped me. 14 The L ORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the L ORD doeth valiantly.
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Thou art my God, and I will praise thee,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
showed us light--or favor (Ps 27:1; With the sacrificial victim brought bound to the altar is united the more spiritual offering of praise (Ps 50:14, 23), expressed in the terms with which the Psalm opened.
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2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee, my mighty God who hath done this mighty and marvellous thing. Thou shalt be mine, and all the praise my soul is capable of shall be poured forth at thy feet. Thou art my God, I will exalt thee. Thou hast exalted me, and as far as my praises can do it, I will exalt thy name. Jesus is magnified, and he magnifies the Father according to his prayer, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee." God hath given us grace and promised us glory, and we are constrained to ascribe all grace to him, and all the glory of it also. The repetition indicates a double determination, and sets forth the firmness of the resolution, the heartiness of the affection, the intensity of the gratitude. Our Lord Jesus himself saith, "I will praise thee"; and well may each one of us, humbly and with confidence in divine grace, add, on his own account, the same declaration, " I will praise thee." However others may blaspheme thee, I will exalt thee; however dull and cold I may sometimes feel myself, yet will I rouse up my nature, and determine that as long as I have any being that being shall be spent to thy praise. For ever thou art my God, and for ever I will give thee thanks.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee - This is the language of the author of the psalm - his solemn profession before the sanctuary and the altar; his response to the priesthood. In Psa 118:27, they had declared that “Jehovah alone was God;” to this he now replies, that he acknowledges, it; he recognizes him as the true God, and as his God; he comes to praise him; and he professes his purpose always to exalt him as his God. Thou art my God, I will exalt thee - Repeating the solemn declaration that Yahweh alone was the God whom he worshipped, and that it was his purpose always to magnify his name.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵלִ֣י | ʾeli | [are] God my | H410 → | 241 times |
| אַתָּ֣ה | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּ | veodeka | and I will give thanks to you | H3034 → | 114 times |
| אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י | ʾelohai | O God my | H430 → | 2601 times |
| אֲרוֹמְמֶֽךָּ׃ | ʾaromeka | I will exalt you | H7311 → | 190 times |
אֵלִ֣י[are] God my
ʾeliH410 →241 times
אַתָּ֣הyou
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּand I will give thanks to you
veodekaH3034 →114 times
אֱ֝לֹהַ֗יO God my
ʾelohaiH430 →2601 times
אֲרוֹמְמֶֽךָּ׃I will exalt you
ʾaromekaH7311 →190 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
it leads to
- Exodus 15:2
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 118:14
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 27:1
The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— whom shall I dread?
- Revelation 7:10
And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- Isaiah 26:3–4
You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
- Exodus 15:2
Through
Exodus 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
it leads to
- Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
- Isaiah 12:2
Through
Isaiah 25:9And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us…
it leads to
- Psalms 27:14
Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
- Psalms 27:14
Through
Isaiah 25:1O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.
it leads to
- Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Numbers 23:19
Where this verse is studied
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, On the Psalms, Psalm 118; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 5; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Psalms; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.